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It's easy to make things work when you control both hardware and software.

Which is also the Apple approach. Mac OS is pretty terrible at sleep and wake on non-Apple hardware, but of course it is, Apple doesn't test against hardware they don't support. In both cases it isn't anything wrong with the Linux or Darwin kernels, it's inconsistent implementations and little manufacturer care.

Last I knew, they did not support hibernate.

I understand it's not quite the same thing, but it means you either need to turn it off, or charge it every week, even if you're not using it.

Why would Chrome OS be considered an alternative to Linux? The only thing in common seems to be the kernel running somewhere under the hood.

Just pointing out that Linux can sleep. It's not an inherent issue.

ChromeOS comes out of the box with a full Linux userspace. It has a terminal emulator, X11, software toolchain, and the rest of it.