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Is there an initiative going on to make hibernation work on Linux?

I think this is a much higher priority... Honestly, this is the only thing that bothers me about Linux. I need to keep my machine suspended between use sessions, which is a waste of the planet's resources. Imagine that multiplied by the dozens (maybe 100's?) of thousands of engineers doing the same?

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I have always been bewildered about the demand for suspend-to-disk (aka. hibernation). Suspend-to-RAM (aka. standby) consumes virtually no energy, doesn't create disk writes, and wakeup is instant.

The desire for hibernation seems to be constant and widespread though. Honest question, what do you expect from hibernation that you don't get from standby?

Back then (10 years ago?) standby consumed energy, if you left your laptop on standby mode for far too long you'd come back to see the battery dead and you lose all your work.

So hibernation was by far the best option to maintain a long-running desktop session. But these days standby mode consumes so little energy that hibernation is no longer needed in my honest opinion. Still the mindset remains.

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