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by dale_glass 160 days ago
Sleep just ceased to exist in the last few years and got replaced with an always on, low power mode.

I believe the reasoning was partly that suspend to RAM had serious reliability issues due to the complexity of saving the state, partly that people starting expecting cell phone-like performance where eg, mail is always received.

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Depends. The Intel models still support sleep on Linux (at least up to 12 or 13 gen, AMD boards only nap.