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Believe it or not, I finally bought an all AMD machine with decent driver support, and everything still works in Debian. Even closing the lid to sleep. Haven't

Believe it or not, I finally bought an all AMD machine with decent driver support, and everything still works in Debian. Even closing the lid to sleep. Haven't tested hibernate, cause sleep works great and reliably. Even has incredible battery life and performance. I can hardly believe it.

lillecarl 2y ago
Thank Microsoft for sleep just working, it's using "modern standby" which keeps the CPU and stuff running on lowest power rather than some "special magic mode". You're essentially killing peripherals, killing all but one core and parking it on some low mhz. Initializing hardware is hard, reinitializing hardware is harder, so now when chips are power focusing we can just ignore the annoying steps :)
- knowitnone 2y ago
  Umm, not that well. I've had audio playing and after closing the lid, the audio continues to play. At times, I wonder if it's really asleep or not. You don't really know until you open the laptop (I guess I could measure power draw).
- alecco 2y ago
  >Thank Microsoft for sleep just working Wait, what?? Just re-discussed the other day: State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442490 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442490 > S0ix would be great if it worked. But unfortunately it does not - laptops die from overheating, draining their battery in the process. > This issue is not limited to Linux, as Dell officially warns to power down your Laptop before placing it in a backpack.
- anymouse123456 2y ago
  This is a weird argument. Laptops have been successfully closed to sleep, and inserted into backpacks for literally decades. My 2024 Lenovo X1 Carbon has not ever woken up and tried to commit heat-death suicide. I am quite sure this isn't a widespread problem with Apple products. I can't imagine what the hell people are even doing with laptops if they don't consider close-to-sleep, wifi and bluetooth bare minimum functional requirements.

lillecarl 2y ago

Thank Microsoft for sleep just working, it's using "modern standby" which keeps the CPU and stuff running on lowest power rather than some "special magic mode". You're essentially killing peripherals, killing all but one core and parking it on some low mhz. Initializing hardware is hard, reinitializing hardware is harder, so now when chips are power focusing we can just ignore the annoying steps :)

knowitnone 2y ago
Umm, not that well. I've had audio playing and after closing the lid, the audio continues to play. At times, I wonder if it's really asleep or not. You don't really know until you open the laptop (I guess I could measure power draw).
alecco 2y ago
>Thank Microsoft for sleep just working Wait, what?? Just re-discussed the other day: State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442490 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442490 > S0ix would be great if it worked. But unfortunately it does not - laptops die from overheating, draining their battery in the process. > This issue is not limited to Linux, as Dell officially warns to power down your Laptop before placing it in a backpack.
anymouse123456 2y ago
This is a weird argument. Laptops have been successfully closed to sleep, and inserted into backpacks for literally decades. My 2024 Lenovo X1 Carbon has not ever woken up and tried to commit heat-death suicide. I am quite sure this isn't a widespread problem with Apple products. I can't imagine what the hell people are even doing with laptops if they don't consider close-to-sleep, wifi and bluetooth bare minimum functional requirements.