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?

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I’m running an OG Framework Laptop 13. s2idle works just fine, but it looks like S3 is also supported (this may not be the case for all their systems, of course).

    $  cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
[s2idle] deep

    Honestly, I haven’t given it much thought. I just have my idle program run systemctl suspend and that’s that.