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To be honest the experience over multiple laptops and multiple Linux distributions with regards to suspend or hibernate has been absolutely terrible for me. I now set my browser to remember all my tabs and simply shut down my machine when I'm not issuing it. It starts up in 30 seconds or less which is maybe 15 seconds more than waking from suspend or hibernate and it's not likely to break or require complicated set up.
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Yeah, because of the same experience for the last 2 decades, I always shut my stuff down as well.
Then I gave an old laptop with Linux to my ~~neoprene~~ nephew. And without further discussion or thinking, he just pressed the power button, when he wanted it to be off - which triggered some kind of sleep mode
I was so fucking nervous during that, as I had never tested for that, and for the young generation growing up with smartphones that was the obvious move.
But surprisingly it works like a charm and goes into some kind of standby.
At least I didn't got any complains...
Isn't neoprene a synthetic material?
My husband also uses the power button to power off his PC. I didn't even know it was a thing until he asked me to do it for him at some point and I was very confused. He's on Windows. I didn't know this worked on Linux as well (though I know it's a thing on laptops). Is there a way to configure what it does (on PC) like it does on laptops?
Ah, fucking auto correct
Should have read: my nephew ;-)
Edit: and regarding your question:
Yeah, there some power management tools/deamons to configure in Linux, how to handle what.
Depends a bit on your distribution/environment, which tools are available - or make sense to be installed
IIRC in the UEFI (aka BIOS), there’s usually a setting to dictate what a tap of the power button does—usually sleep, hibernate, or power off.
Try tapping F10, F12, or Del during early startup to get into the UEFI setup
I was trained to turn off PCs completely from a young age so still do this, necessary or not