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Why is sleep so hard for laptops? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by squaresinger@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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And it's crap across the OSes. On Linux laptops don't wake up from sleep, on Windows they keep waking up when nobody asks for it.

In our home office room there's three laptops. My private one running Fedora, my work PC that sadly runs Windows and my wife's laptop also running Windows.

My work laptop and my wife's laptop keep waking up wasting electricity, and my private laptop needs a hard reset to wake it up every second time.

That feature should be stupid simple, yet it doesn't work across the board.

Rant over.

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's been quite a while since I've used sleep on a laptop, but it worked well on my Dell (latitude I think, as I said, it's been a while). It did take a little experimenting with sleep levels to get it reliable, but once it was it worked for years.

ETA: I realise that saying "it worked for me" is probably intensely annoying, my appologies for that, but I thought a counterpoint might be a useful extra data point.