OpenBSD 7.8

I'm surprised seeing improvements in Suspend/Hibernate support.

I've used OpenBSD on laptops before and it was _fine_. I thought they primarily target servers. This feels like laptop specific improvements. Perhaps to the benefits only to those developing OpenBSD.

The OpenBSD developers (in)famously use ThinkPads almost exclusively, so it works really great on ThinkPads, and much less well on other laptops.

Incidentally it was also on a thinkpad that I had installed it.

Honestly I've never owned any other laptops than thinkpads and macbooks. Every other laptop I've ever touched in a computer shop left me with "eww".

Every computer I have ever owned has regularly failed miserably at suspended, or more accurately resuming.

Even my Steam Deck, with it's top down firmware and OS development regularly fails to suspend our freezes on resume.

I'll bite. You ever owned a macbook?

Sounds like they only thing they've owned. But maybe I'm running the perfect windows and linux distros.. and my macs are out of spec.

Apple generally has excellent sleep support, even on my old falling-to-pieces unibody which would KP if you looked at it funny I don’t remember résume ever being a concern.

I’m not going to say their ever degrading software quality won’t affect that one day, and I know that some updates have caused issues for some people, but I genuinely can’t remember it ever failing me and not doing its job correctly.

On laptops with good support openbsd is sublime. I have a thinkpad x131 that I still use as a daily driver. Mainly because it runs obsd perfectly. never any problems suspending and resuming. I replaced the wifi when it was new to a supported model along with much cursing about lenovo card whitelist. perhaps the only black mark on it's record. It is getting quite long in the tooth by now but it still meets my needs. I shall be very sad when it dies.

Honestly the most underrated feature on at least this thinkpad is it has three physical mouse buttons. So nice. Now I have to check if lenovo still does that.

I bought a new dell latitude 3550 recently. No issues on OpenBSD.