[rauhl]

> Good to see that the good old "laptop doesn't go to sleep on linux" problem has never truly gone away.

FWIW, I have a spare Windows laptop, just over a year old, whose WiFi does not recover upon waking from sleep about eleven times out of a dozen.

OTOH, I have had both Windows and Linux laptops which have gotten uncomfortably warm when ‘asleep.’ And right now I have a Linux laptop which very rarely hangs on sleep and turns into space heater, not even turning off the monitor but becoming completely unresponsive.

Sleep is apparently a lot trickier a feature than it looks.

[midislack]

Blame Intel, their power management code's an ever changing mess.

[Const-me]

I have 2 computers with AMD, sleep glitches on both.

On desktop, sometimes there's no video signal after wake up.

The laptop doesn't support sleep at all, it's either connected standby = not sleeping, or hybernate. Windows says none of the proper S1-S3 states are supported by the computer.

[tambourine_man]

So it only works reliably on Macs?

[dTal]

No, it works reliably on many individual PCs as well. Comparing the entire PC ecosystem to a couple models made by a single company is a category error.

[politician]

There are problems with Macs too as recently as the last release where the laptop would have a bit set preventing it from sleeping that you could only see from the terminal.