[Daunk]

For all the years I've been using Linux, I've always had some kind of sleep issues. I've used Intel, AMD, ATI, and NVIDIA hardware across countless distros and setups, yet nothing seems to make a difference, there's always something that doesn’t work properly with sleep or hibernation.

Honestly, it's one of the main issues I wish the Linux community would take a closer look at and finally fix!

[kiwijamo]

Interestingly sleep/wake is something I've found to work almost always just fine out of the box in Linux, including on machines Windows has sleeping issues! It used to be quite bad but things has improved heaps over the last 10 or so years -- however I've also stuck with Lenovo laptops which does generally seem to have better support in Linux.

[kristianp]

I agree, I have a Thinkpad with Intel processor + nvidia GPU purchased in 2023 and I have not had sleep issues. Ubuntu 22.04.

The nearest thing to a sleep issue is that the screen is visible for a fraction of a second on some wakeups before the lock screen covers it. A bit of a privacy issue.

Good to see that AMD might be getting better support, in part because of its growing popularity.

[freedomben]

Indeed, whatever Lenovo has seems mostly good. Not perfect, but does the right thing 19 out of 20 times, maybe more. Unfortunately that one time it doesn't work and roasts in my backpack it's a catastrophe :-(

[Narishma]

I think it it's because there are too many subsystems involved in sleep/resume all being worked on as independent projects (kernel, drivers which sometimes have both kernel and user space components, init system, display server, desktop environment, probably others I'm not aware of). That said, I've had my share of sleep issues on Windows as well over the years, I suspect for the same reasons.

[1970-01-01]

This. Linux users must resort to bronze-age tooling in 2025; Crafting and launching handmade scripts by candlelight to diagnose their plethora of sleep issues. But the community likes it this way. Meanwhile, Mac users continue to have sleep that 'just works' and Windows users have an entire sleep troubleshooting toolkit:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...

[nyanpasu64]

I once ran into a corporate laptop that had been downgraded from Windows 11 to 10, that would burn up its CPU during Modern Standby and eventually enter hibernate after burning a good fraction of its battery. The sleep study identified various PCIe devices and I tried installing drivers but they did not help. I wonder if it would've worked better on Windows 11 with stock drivers.