For laptop owners: What is the landscape of linux sleeping policy like 2026, i.e. S0ix vs S3?

2026-08-07 04:29 UTC

I read how most laptop vendors nowadays force S0ix (Modern Standby). You can no longer pick S3. On Linux the names for these policies in the kernel are: deep, aka the S3 sleep or suspend to ram s2idle, aka the new Modern Standby or S0ix or suspend to idle. I am thinking of getting the new Framework laptop, but after talking with their CS, they mention that all Framework will run on S0ix and will not support S3 sleep. There was a video of LTT bashing S0ix/Modern Standby years ago and he was correct. I had a Thinkpad and it defaulted to S0ix: resume and suspend were very unpredictable. Luckily that laptop also supports S3 so i can just switch to it. Is resume / suspend getting better on Linux with this forced S0ix? Or i better hold on to an old laptop with S3 lol? BTW, those with Framework, is resume/suspend reliable? Almost Mac like?

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@UnLocoPoco@lemmy.world 2026-08-07 07:53

Fair point. Even my asus zenbook 2025 around 20% of times when I close my lid, it goes to hibernation and asus Software notifies that due to system not going to sleep within time, it was forced to go into hibernate. In Linux, forcing might work for s3 but u need to test out wirh everything. Else it’ll be stuck in between. Do you have a system currently which is comparable to framework specs? Yes I know they have much better out of the box suppoet for Linux but in this way you can test out you main Hardware for support.

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@adeoxymus@lemmy.world 2026-08-07 05:09

I’m also interested in this. In my old xps 13 the s0 was very buggy. Would be a shame if you can’t switch to s3 at all. I thought it was a limitation of the x86 architecture actually?

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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-08-07 09:25

wiki.archlinux.org/title/…/Suspend_and_hibernate

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@whoiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 2026-08-07 05:37

If you have to ask you won’t be able to get it working.

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