I’ve just used Ubuntu since the early 2000s. I know people have plenty of grievances with Ubuntu and Canonical but Ubuntu has always just worked for me. There is tons of documentation and the user base is so huge that it’s easy to get questions answered.

I would have responded.

This is too accurate!

I will have to try that, I didn’t know that functionality existed, thanks!

I’m not a programmer but I do this on the Linux command line all the time to find a command I used days or weeks ago. Or I’ll spend 20 minutes grepping history instead. All to avoid spending 5 minutes reading the manpage so I can remember which flags and arguments I used.

But not Signal? I use Signal but I’m not sure I can get my chat groups to use something else.

This was gonna be my suggestion as well.

I also go in and prune the library every so often to get rid of my sister in law’s trashy reality TV shows.

I am responding to you on an LG V30 that I haven’t been able to part with because of the things you mentioned.

The battery life sucks and sometimes the fingerprint reader on the back doesn’t work right but I can’t bring myself to buy something new that doesn’t have the features I want. It just feels like I’d be downgrading.

I’d rather just close the lid and have it not be dead the next time I open it. Sure I could do a proper shutdown if I know I’m done for the day, but in an office running from meeting to meeting that’s not always how things work out.

I’d like the option of choosing between partial sleep and full sleep. When I pack up my work laptop for the weekend it sucks getting to a Monday morning meeting and having the laptop be dead.