Valve Drops Suspend Function for SteamOS Due to Poor Support in Linux Graphics Stack

Posted by thesilviu on Aug 17, 2015 2:25 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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Valve is making some hard choice for SteamOS, and it looks like they are having some issues with the support for various components. In this case, it's about the support for suspend, which is not all that good, forcing them to drop it from the operating system.

Suspend is a function that does just that. It suspends the operating system, and users can easily resume working afterwards. It's normally not an issue, and all major distributions out there have this function implemented. Suspending the OS on the desktop computers might not be all that important, but think about laptops. The default action when you close a laptop is to go into suspend mode, so you need that function to work.

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