#year_of_the_linux_desktop — Public Fediverse posts

My mother asked me to install Linux on her computer, because she get fed up with windows, the ads, the slowness (likely due to all the overhead for ads/news/surveillance/etc).

The transition is invisible : she was using firefox, thunderbird, libre office for years, and doesn't do much more. All of her hardware is well supported, up to the printer.

I will see how it lasts, but for now she is happy with a simpler and faster computer

#year_of_the_linux_desktop is behind us, it seems. Or Linux regressed less quickly than windows in the last decade

I still have no idea why my monitors turn immediately back on after going into DPMS idle but I have cut the phase space down a bunch:

Contexts where screens stay in DPMS idle:

• Windows 10 (this changed recently, it used to have the same problem)
• X + aterm, nothing else running, manual "xset dpms force off"
• X + aterm + mate-wm, nothing else running

Contexts where screens turn back on:

• Complete MATE desktop environment
• XFCE
• KDE
• niri

Things that don't affect the problem:

• Disconnecting either of the monitors
• Disconnecting the mouse
• Disconnecting the keyboard
• Which idle mode is used (standby/suspend/off)
• Using HDMI cables instead of DisplayPort (I think)

Please suggest more troubleshooting strategies for me to try, this has been annoying me for months and the only idea I have left is to plug more pieces of MATE in via .xinitrc until it breaks which sounds unutterably tedious

#linux #x11 #dpms
#year_of_the_linux_desktop