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On Linux I've configured the OS to hibernate when I close the lid instead of sleeping. With today's SSD speeds, waking up from hibernation instead of sleep only adds 5-10s. Unless you're constantly opening and closing your laptop lid, that shouldn't affect your daily routine that much

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It's a work-around at best, and not a nice one if you consider the wasted disk space.

I don't understand why all vendors are actively trying to kill S3 sleep. It doesn't make any sense.

Because Windows stopped using s3 sleep. Testing and ensuring that s3 sleep works is a cost for laptop makers, and the number of Linux users is apparently not enough to justify it.

> Testing and ensuring that s3 sleep works is a cost for laptop makers

s/laptop makers/CPU vendors/

Reportedly neither Intel nor AMD are willing to support you if you’re developing firmware with S3 support for a platform using their recent CPUs (I believe that means ≥ 13th gen resp. ≥ Zen 4 but I’m not sure).

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