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I did some manual partitioning when installing Kalpa: I added a Swap partition whose capacity I set equal to RAM + 2GB, which got hibernate working.

I think Hibernate is strictly better than Sleep: Why should a computer still use power when it isn't doing anything? And if you could get a desktop to recover its state before a full reboot without using Hibernate, then why would you need Sleep anyway?

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Yeah I read further down in the comments that Aeon and Kalpa have actually diverged quite a bit, the installer might be one of those divergences. How are you liking Kalpa?

The main benefit of sleeping to RAM is of course the resume speed, which makes it more suitable for when you just left your computer inactive for 15 minutes. That goes double if you use encryption without TPM unlocking.

For leaving your computer overnight, hibernate wins on all fronts. I'm enthusiastic about sleep-then-hibernate schemes, but haven't gotten them to work on my devices yet.

I thought so too, until i saw what writing ~50GB to disk multiple times daily does to SSD lifetime for no good reason.

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