Post #1528044

2026-04-22 15:23 UTC

good battery life is nice, but does Linux’s bibernation or suspend work reliably on this? Asking because coming from Lenovo, the power performance is not a problem but it is the power management. Unless I am on a Window version specifically for that Lenovo laptop or I am on a Mac, there is always that 10% chance the laptop will fail to suspend properly.

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@eldavi@lemmy.ml 2026-04-22 15:42

up until a few months ago, i’ve been only been using linux-first companies because of battery life and power management and it spoiled me because i came to expect a windows/mac-level of performance in this realm. i tried going back to a windows-first laptop most recently and the power management has definately gotten better under linux than it was the last time i tried in 2013, but it still leaves something to be desired like your lenovo laptop does and it makes me wish that framework were more candid about linux user experiences to justify the additional costs that they’re expecting from us.

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@sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-23 06:39

In my experience Power Management is broken on Windows and Linux the same way. Some laptops do work better then others, but none of both Systems works fully reliable. My work HP Elitebook 845 G8 also has the problem of waking itself up in my backpack and boiling to Death (empty Battery). And it is running on Windows. Don’t know if Apple with their MacBooks have similar problems.

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@Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-26 17:05

Suspend works just fine with Fedora KDE on my AMD Framework 13. I don’t know about hibernation, since I use FDE and Linux still doesn’t support encrypted hibernation.

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