> And no, this is really, really not solved. I have problems 1 time out of 3.
This is surprising, since I do the same for work and don't ever have issues. I don't do anything fancy DPI-wise, though, so that might have to do with it.
> Can you imagine if VSCode would restore your file tabs, but only, most of the time?
I can, since Azure Data Studio (which is VSCode-based, IIRC) has this exact issue. So do browsers, on that note.
My laptop, however, does not have this issue, nor have any other laptops on which I've installed Linux in the last 5 years or so (including a lot of random consumer-grade Dells and HPs and Lenovos, let alone the business-grade ones I prefer to buy for myself or for corporate deployments). I close the lid, it sleeps, I open the lid, it wakes up. Every single time.
> It IS harder to dev a desktop app for linux
I do all my desktop application development on Linux (internal corporate applications, nothing public yet). Developing on Linux with PyQt5 (or PyQt4, or TKinter) is an absolute breeze. It's porting to Windows and macOS that's a royal pain in the behind (and has got me looking at C# and Avalonia, which is similarly painless on Linux and hopefully will be less painful for Windows and macOS than my current PyQt5+fbs flow).
> Want to make a package ? rpm, deb, snap, flatpack or appimage?
AppImage. It works everywhere, and effectively makes cross-distro compatibility a non-issue. There's literally no reason not to use it.
If distros want to build and maintain RPM or APT or AUR or Nix or whatever packages, then that's on them.
> Want to use QT4?
Why would I want to use QT4? QT5 is much nicer all around.
This is surprising, since I do the same for work and don't ever have issues. I don't do anything fancy DPI-wise, though, so that might have to do with it.
> Can you imagine if VSCode would restore your file tabs, but only, most of the time?
I can, since Azure Data Studio (which is VSCode-based, IIRC) has this exact issue. So do browsers, on that note.
My laptop, however, does not have this issue, nor have any other laptops on which I've installed Linux in the last 5 years or so (including a lot of random consumer-grade Dells and HPs and Lenovos, let alone the business-grade ones I prefer to buy for myself or for corporate deployments). I close the lid, it sleeps, I open the lid, it wakes up. Every single time.
> It IS harder to dev a desktop app for linux
I do all my desktop application development on Linux (internal corporate applications, nothing public yet). Developing on Linux with PyQt5 (or PyQt4, or TKinter) is an absolute breeze. It's porting to Windows and macOS that's a royal pain in the behind (and has got me looking at C# and Avalonia, which is similarly painless on Linux and hopefully will be less painful for Windows and macOS than my current PyQt5+fbs flow).
> Want to make a package ? rpm, deb, snap, flatpack or appimage?
AppImage. It works everywhere, and effectively makes cross-distro compatibility a non-issue. There's literally no reason not to use it.
If distros want to build and maintain RPM or APT or AUR or Nix or whatever packages, then that's on them.
> Want to use QT4?
Why would I want to use QT4? QT5 is much nicer all around.