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That's true. I switched to Linux Mint on my Latitude E7450 and the experience so far has been great. The only downside is that I cannot hibernate the system, wh

by bundie 3y ago

That's true. I switched to Linux Mint on my Latitude E7450 and the experience so far has been great. The only downside is that I cannot hibernate the system, which means I have to shut down every damn time.

beardyw 3y ago
It seems to be caused by inconsistencies in the power handling hardware. I now have a laptop which came with Linux installed and it's the first time it's worked!
- hef19898 3y ago
  I run Ubuntu on Lenovo Extreme Gen 2, and hiberbation just works fine (I don't rember if I did some BIOS tweaking so). Battery consumption during hibernation seems to be higher than Windows, but that's about it.
  - vladvasiliu 3y ago
    > Battery consumption during hibernation seems to be higher than Windows, but that's about it. Are you actually hibernating it, or doing the "hybrid sleep" thing, which only sleeps and then hibernates? In my case (Arch) the default for hybrid sleep is to keep it in sleep state for quite a while, whereas windows shuts down fairly quickly when unplugged. Actual hibernation is shutting the computer completely off, so I'd be curious to know how one OS could have a different power consumption than another.
    - hef19898 3y ago
      Ah, that could be it... But then I only used standby and shutdown under Windows as well anyway...
      - vladvasiliu 3y ago
        I'm not a regular windows user, so I may be wrong, but it's my understanding that, by default, windows will keep the computer in "sleep" mode if it's plugged in, and pretty quickly put it in hibernate if it's asleep and unplugged. The way I found out is this one time I left work with my laptop under windows and asleep.When I arrived home an hour later, it had to go through the full bios setup (which you can't miss since it's ridiculously slow) and then it went and booted Linux (it's the default boot setup). When I rebooted back to windows, I found my previous stuff open. Since this happened again a few times, I figured it was normal behavior. My default Linux install won't automatically hibernate while asleep as long as the battery is above some threshold, like 10%. And since the computer doesn't support S3, only "modern standby", it will chew through the battery like no tomorrow.
  - MayeulC 3y ago
    The system is not supposed to draw any power while hibernating (suspend-to-disk). Maybe you're thinking of suspend-to-ram (sleep)? To diagnose hibernation issues, I'd double check the kernel command line (resume=<disk or inode>) argument. That it's still the right location.
jitl 3y ago
How is that great? I would rather run Mint in a full screen VM under windows and have hibernation on a laptop.
theonlybutlet 3y ago
Throwing this out there, perhaps you've tried already, but maybe it'd help. Installing TLP?

by bundie 3y ago

beardyw 3y ago

It seems to be caused by inconsistencies in the power handling hardware. I now have a laptop which came with Linux installed and it's the first time it's worked!

hef19898 3y ago
I run Ubuntu on Lenovo Extreme Gen 2, and hiberbation just works fine (I don't rember if I did some BIOS tweaking so). Battery consumption during hibernation seems to be higher than Windows, but that's about it.
- vladvasiliu 3y ago
  > Battery consumption during hibernation seems to be higher than Windows, but that's about it. Are you actually hibernating it, or doing the "hybrid sleep" thing, which only sleeps and then hibernates? In my case (Arch) the default for hybrid sleep is to keep it in sleep state for quite a while, whereas windows shuts down fairly quickly when unplugged. Actual hibernation is shutting the computer completely off, so I'd be curious to know how one OS could have a different power consumption than another.
  - hef19898 3y ago
    Ah, that could be it... But then I only used standby and shutdown under Windows as well anyway...
    - vladvasiliu 3y ago
      I'm not a regular windows user, so I may be wrong, but it's my understanding that, by default, windows will keep the computer in "sleep" mode if it's plugged in, and pretty quickly put it in hibernate if it's asleep and unplugged. The way I found out is this one time I left work with my laptop under windows and asleep.When I arrived home an hour later, it had to go through the full bios setup (which you can't miss since it's ridiculously slow) and then it went and booted Linux (it's the default boot setup). When I rebooted back to windows, I found my previous stuff open. Since this happened again a few times, I figured it was normal behavior. My default Linux install won't automatically hibernate while asleep as long as the battery is above some threshold, like 10%. And since the computer doesn't support S3, only "modern standby", it will chew through the battery like no tomorrow.
- MayeulC 3y ago
  The system is not supposed to draw any power while hibernating (suspend-to-disk). Maybe you're thinking of suspend-to-ram (sleep)? To diagnose hibernation issues, I'd double check the kernel command line (resume=<disk or inode>) argument. That it's still the right location.

jitl 3y ago

How is that great? I would rather run Mint in a full screen VM under windows and have hibernation on a laptop.

theonlybutlet 3y ago

Throwing this out there, perhaps you've tried already, but maybe it'd help. Installing TLP?