Laptop Sleep Issues
Users discuss persistent problems with laptop suspend, sleep, and hibernation across Linux, Windows, and macOS, including failures to wake, battery drain in bags, hardware limitations, and Microsoft's influence on S3 support.
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Some new laptops cannot actually fully suspend to ram. It sounds crazy but I had this issue even after installing Linux on a laptop. It’s a hardware limitation. You can thank Microsoft for trying to make sure they can sneak in OS updates when you think your laptop is asleep.
Could never get sleep to work properly on 2 Dells in the last 2 years. Switched to hibernate on lid close and that seems to work.
Just use Linux bro (Suspend still doesn’t wake consistently on my thinkpad it’s been 20 years)
How do I get my laptop to properly sleep when using Linux?
Does it matter if I want my laptop to sleep properly? Somehow it works properly on Windows.
even windows laptops are inconsistent with sleep working. how is this not enforced at a hardware level? randomly turning on and generating heat while inside a backpack seems like something that could physically damage the laptop.
Spoiler: I have an XPS 9500 under Linux, which sleeps fine under S3 but then it never wakes up. So the problem isn't with Windows.
Because Windows stopped using s3 sleep. Testing and ensuring that s3 sleep works is a cost for laptop makers, and the number of Linux users is apparently not enough to justify it.
Even with Linux, sleep on my Thinkpads is still a coin flip
I use standby/sleep all the time no issues.