I read how most laptop vendors nowadays force S0ix (Modern Standby). You can no longer pick S3.

On Linux the names for these policies in the kernel are:

  • deep, aka the S3 sleep or suspend to ram

  • s2idle, aka the new Modern Standby or S0ix or suspend to idle.

I am thinking of getting the new Framework laptop, but after talking with their CS, they mention that all Framework will run on S0ix and will not support S3 sleep.

There was a video of LTT bashing S0ix/Modern Standby years ago and he was correct. I had a Thinkpad and it defaulted to S0ix: resume and suspend were very unpredictable. Luckily that laptop also supports S3 so i can just switch to it.

Is resume / suspend getting better on Linux with this forced S0ix? Or i better hold on to an old laptop with S3 lol?

BTW, those with Framework, is resume/suspend reliable? Almost Mac like?

  • Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Honestly I usually don’t use either sleep or any suspensions. I prefer to turn the device off, since turning it on will take less than 20 seconds anyway.

    It was also a lot less supported some time ago so that is the reason I avoided it originally.

    I feel like these weird sleep things are some windows heritage to avoid reboot updates and edge browser queries or whatever other crap flies over there.