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I just can't stand the lack of hibernation or hybrid suspend on laptops with Linux. Otherwise I'd much rather have a Linux distro on my nice laptop and windows in a VM if at all.
Both of those work on Linux. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate
I wonder if some distros disable it for some reason.
It is disabled in the default configuration because you need enough swap space to enable it - which is an overkill amount of swap for any other use case.
Most distros ship with hibernation disabled and they have since Ubuntu 10.04 or so if my memory serves correctly.
You just need to allocate enough swap space for hibernation.
Running Opensuse, suspend/hibernation works fine. Older hardware though
You're joking, right?
My computer is set to 1. Warn me at 9.25 to accept or cancel suspension at 9.30. 2. Set volume to 10% and suspend at 9.30 (just in case it gets woken up, I once woke it up at 4am and had a radio application wake up the family). 3. RTC Wake set to 5.59 4. 6.25am my wakeup music plays.
I have suspend, also hybrid - where it will suspend, and after a certain time (useful for laptops, mine's set for 12 hours so I never hit this unless I go on holiday) it'll hibernate.
I would be very surprised to hear that your distro does all that by default.