What is happening with Linux?

[DanL]

I have a laptop with SiS graphics.

You have my deepest sympathies..

I think the issues or problems are understated here. Then there's the trolls (same ppl who accuse others of being trolls) who pretend there's hardly any issues at all.

I acknowledge issues exist, however, I believe there are better ways of solving them than generalized ranting on Phoronix forums.

one of my laptops doesn't 'wake up' when the lid goes down. It requires a hard re-boot. I'm inclined to speculate it's often graphics related or something to do with X-Server?

What have you done to troubleshoot the issue? Where is your bug report?