> Choosing a Microsoft laptop to use Linux is asking for trouble :) Not true anymore. > I had two of them, and Microsoft had this awful idea of the connected

> Choosing a Microsoft laptop to use Linux is asking for trouble :) Not true anymore. > I had two of them, and Microsoft had this awful idea of the connected standby, which caused standby/suspend problems (power-hungry standby, which is a very serious problem on a laptop). When? Which models? ACPI S01x when well done works better than ACPI S3, and Linux support for S01x is now getting quite good. On a X1 nano, I've got less than 0.2%/h of power draw: so 10h of sleep consumes about 2% battery On the X1 Fold, I was able to reduce that to about 0.5%/h after some workaround for Intel drivers bugs: cf https://csdvrx.github.io/ https://csdvrx.github.io/ or just the graph https://csdvrx.github.io/X1_Fold_(20RL_20RK)_Optimization/pasted_image001.png https://csdvrx.github.io/X1_Fold_(20RL_20RK)_Optimization/pa... It's still a work in progress, but I can't remember ACPI S3 consuming less that 5% overnight and resuming instantly. > I don't remember having to do any tweak on desktop machine, except the time where I had a very modern Ryzen that was supported by very recent kernels only. Laptops often need more tweaks than desktops.