How to Disable Linux System from Going to Sleep

In this article I will show you how to disable your Linux System from going to sleep. Of course, your desktop environment must have some option for doing this, but I am not interested, since I want something generically, that could work on more than one system.

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This can be easily done from the grub. The grub sends commands to the kernel directly.

In the /etc/default/grub, modify the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to look like this:

$ GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=acpi=off apm=off

Next run sudo update-grub and reboot your system.

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