Comment by bboygravity 6 days ago
The only laptop I ever had in my entire life where sleep works is my current XPS 17 running win10.
I want to update my hardware to a Lenovo. Not looking forward to new "sleep won't work no matter what you try" adventures.
That sht is like printers: should always work, never does.
I think it's highly dependent on the particular hardware.
I have two HP EliteBook G8s, one AMD one Intel. Both work perfectly with Linux, although they don't support S3, only the "modern" standby.
The AMD one randomly craps out if suspended in Windows. No idea what it does, but it gets extremely hot and doesn't respond to anything but a hard reset. Sometimes it reboots on its own. Maybe because it gets too hot? No idea.
The Intel one also sometimes gets fairly warm for no reason (I keep it up to date, so it can't be random updates - also happens in my bag, so while unplugged). But sleep now mostly works fine. For the first year or so it would sometimes wake up with a garbled screen.
Those are both your regular basic enterprise laptops, no dedicated GPUs or anything fancy.
Weird. I haven't had a problem with my System76 laptops.