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Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 14 hours ago by DundasStation@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Every night, I put my computer to sleep. But should I be shutting it down every now and then? For example, maybe once a week or once a month?

Just curious to see this question answered from a Linux gamers' perspective.

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[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Probably something funky on my end but my CachyOS machine struggles to wake up from sleep mode. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it takes 5+ minutes on a black screen, sometimes it just never comes on. Regardless, I use an elgato stream deck (I like my funny buttons + dials and it powers my XLR mic), and it flat out doesn't turn back on after sleep.

This thing is up and running in like a minute tops from a cold boot anyway so I usually just run an update and full shut down every night.

[–] DundasStation@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

For me, I expanded my swapfile from 2GB to 16GB. I usually face wake issues every 2-3 days, but now I'm officially on my first week without issues.

[–] Durandal@lemmy.today 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I've had the weird black screen on wake issue on Cachy due to problems with nvidia daemon not behaving itself. If you have an nvidia card you might look into that. Recent updates have mitigated the issue a bit for me. Sometimes when it does have the issue I'm able to swap to another TTY and then back and it will cause it to rethink it's bad decisions and the login screen will be there.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, it's probably an Nvidia thing isn't it. Yeah sometimes swapping works, though overall it's just not consistent enough to bother with sleep.