In windows, save the recovery key (to an external USB key for instance), it is a text file. Then in Linux double click the partition in Thunar or your file manager and it will ask you for the key.

Yes for /boot/efi you’re right but /boot is ext4

EFI with grub

It works with 2 or 3 AA batteries, not that much power

So I don’t know :-(

Have you disabled Fast Boot in your BIOS ?

yes of course

sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi

Hibernation or suspend? 2 different things. For hibernation you need a swap space at least the size of your RAM, and then the laptop is powered off after this.

For suspend, in your dmesg, see if you have:

ACPI: PM: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)

if you have S3 your laptop should lost only a few percent.

do a:

cat /sys/power/mem_sleep

what does it says?

New CPU/BIOS/PC/Laptop only support something called “s0 idle” meaning it is like a cellphone, everything is running, and each drivers/components/os should enter low power themselves, if they do not, well, your battery is draining.

S3 means “suspend to RAM”, only RAM is powered and everything else is off, your laptop can stay like this for days. I don’t know who decided that this is bad and your laptop should be like your cellphone, always running?!?

well, are you sure the script is executed? I don’t know systemd enough :-(

First, do a test in command line modprobe -r iwlwifi

then suspend your laptop, resume it after a few seconds then do

modprobe iwlwifi

and see if wifi is working

Use MX Linux instead, I will never go back to something else

you have to replace the ## with &&

the name should be iwlwifi

You need to unload your wifi module before suspend.

Without systemd it’s easy:

create a file /etc/pm/config.d/config containing:

HOOK_BLACKLIST="wireless"
SUSPEND_MODULES=”NAME_OF_YOUR_WIFI_MODULE”
SUSPEND_MODULES=”wl”

With systemd try this

create a file /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/fix-wifi.sh containing (fuck this editor, replace the “##” with “&&”) :

#!/bin/bash
[ "$1" = "post" ] ## exec /usr/sbin/modprobe NAME_OF_YOUR_WIFI_MODULE
[ "$1" = "pre" ] ## exec /usr/sbin/modprobe -r NAME_OF_YOUR_WIFI_MODULE
exit 0

and make it executable with chmod 755 /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/fix-wifi.sh

what? suspend works flawlessly for years

Why use flatpak?

After using ext4 for yyyeeeaaaarrrrrsss, when I upgraded my MX21 to MX23 I used btrfs, with subvolumes, especially for easy backup/snapshot/timeshift.

Just at install, super easy, create a small ext4 boot partition on the SSD, then a big LUKS partition, format with btrfs, create subvolumes for / /home /var /swap and that’s it. No hassle with sizing correctly.

btrfs seems pretty stable. I see no diff in performance compared to ext4 because my application are not that dependant to FS speed, and with SSD anyway?

oh yeah, built-in compression too!

I think the one being currently copied? take a look at https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cp.c :)

Yeah, I’m using Google RCS Message too, let’s hope Apple will integrate all the RCS features too

yes, we need E2E encryption, at least

But why the obsession with iMessage and apple product?!? Cannot every people at least send a SMS to others and that’s it? We don’t care about the colour of the bubble!!!

AntiX is awesome on old HW, everything works, just don’t load a big website in the browser or it crawls :)

yeah MX21 32bits is what I would install, or AntiX.

Can’t you boot on a USB key and reset the root password on your HD partition?