I've spent the last decade exclusively on lower-end and more obscure linux laptops. Haven't had a single issue. I'm probably the exception that proves the rule

I've spent the last decade exclusively on lower-end and more obscure linux laptops. Haven't had a single issue. I'm probably the exception that proves the rule though. I've found that most of the time it's not a linux / kernel issue, it's a udev or config issue. If you write 'mem' to the right file in /proc or /sys (I forget which) they just go to sleep. Any acpi event will wake them back up. I've done this with all sorts of custom kernel configurations on older chromebooks and cheap chinese laptops. Never had an issue. Sleeping to memory works great. Sleeping to disk or 'hybernate' is another story though. You need swap properly configured for that and it's finicky.