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Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 by taylodl on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @08:53AM (#34895448)
It's actually more reliable than on PC's because there's far fewer hardware combinations to support and Apple doesn't use particularly exotic hardware.
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 by fsflover on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:06AM (#34896678)
Is suspend working reliably on Linux for MacBooks?
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 by taylodl on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:45AM (#34897377)
That's a global issue with Linux. There are people having problems with Linux sleep/suspend on a wide variety of makes of laptops, include Apple's. But not everybody is having a problem with every make of laptop which means it's either a distribution issue, user error, or some combination of the two.
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 by fsflover on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:57AM (#34898545)
This is not a global issue with Linux. My Librem 15 has 100% reliable sleep. Devices designed for Linux work flawlessly.
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 by taylodl on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @04:47PM (#34903378)
Google "linux laptop sleep suspend problem" and have fun reading all the problems people are having with sleep/suspend with a variety of makes and models of laptops. Meanwhile, sleep/suspend has been worked out for MacBooks, for some time actually. Presumably even on the M2's since that's the machine Linus uses for his development.
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 by fsflover on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @05:10PM (#34903663)
The suspend problems only occur on hardware not designed for Linux, which is most of the available hardware. Therefore I'm not surprised that it affects a variety of laptop models. Meanwhile all devices specifically targeting Linux have a reliable suspend.

The same thing is happening with Macs: Hardware designed for MacOS has a reliable suspend on MacOS.

Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 by heavyset_go on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @01:49PM (#34900654)
Suspend and hibernate have worked on a variety of laptops I've owned over more than a decade. You can also easily build a custom desktop and never run into issues with either. Issues with suspending stem from manufacturers' bespoke components, firmware, configurations and/or non-standard handling of any of those.