I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle.

Turned off secure boot and tpm. Booted off a usb stick. Live environment, check. Start installer and wipe drive. Few minutes later I’m in. Ok let’s find out what’s not working…

WiFi check. Bluetooth check. Sound check (although a little quiet). Keyboard check. Screen resolution check. Hibernates correctly? Check. WTF I can’t believe this all works out the box. The touchscreen? Check. The stylus pen check. Flipping the screen over to a tablet check. Jesus H.

Ok, everything just works. Huh. Who’d have thunk?

Install programs, log into accounts, jeez this laptop is snappier than on windows. Make things pretty for my wife and install some fun games and stuff.

Finished. Ez. Why did I wait so long? Google was wrong - it was cake.

    • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      8·
      21 days ago

      I left I alone, it went off. I came back and wiggled the mouse, nothing happened. I pressed the enter key snd it came back to life -same behavior as my desktop.

      Did it again, this time I tried closing the lid and opening it - it sprung to life when the lid opened.

      You’re right - not the most thorough tests, but that’s what I did/saw.

      • brianorca@lemmy.world
        11·
        21 days ago

        Sounds like sleep. Hibernate is when it turns completely off, such that you can leave it unplugged for a weekend and still have battery when it pops you back into your session. It takes longer to save and restore the session than sleep does.

      • madeofpendletonwool@lemmy.world
        5·
        21 days ago

        That sounds like sleep. Not hibernate. Hibernate is the process of moving your working ram onto disk. It’s similar to a full power off except your current state is saved. Hibernate doesn’t usually work oob. Sleep does.

        • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          42·
          21 days ago

          It was a couple hours. Just like on my desktop, wiggling the mouse wakes it from sleep, but not so in whatever that second state is when it’s left for longer. It definitely was something other than sleep. What it was - I’ll let you guys decide. Whether it behaves long term with fans in a laptop bag, that I don’t know - I haven’t had enough run time with it.

          I’m just sharing a positive experience. If I see it misbehave I’ll be sure to update the thread with reality. But so far, it really is behaving much better than I expected.

    • Epzillon@lemmy.ml
      51·
      21 days ago

      Hibernate never works. On every work laptop and distro I’ve used I’ve always found the laptop spinning and overheating in my bag when I get home. Eventually I just made sure to turn it off completely when I quit work.

      • uis@lemm.ee
        2·
        21 days ago

        I have no idea what you have to do to make that. Hibernation on hardware level is regular shutdown.

        • Epzillon@lemmy.ml
          1·
          21 days ago

          RAM configs and weird BIOS settings from Dell is my bet. I never managed to solve it so I am unsure. I have tried several Ubuntu and Debian flavors and have had the same issues. Gonna run some Fedora-based distro and take more care of RAM configs on my next one I think.

          • uis@lemm.ee
            3·
            21 days ago

            Check kernel args for resume= parameter. If you don’t see it, then either it is handled by init(or initramfs) or just isn’t enabled. Try adding resume=PARTUUID= and then partitionuuid(not just uuid) of swap partition.

            • Epzillon@lemmy.ml
              2·
              21 days ago

              Sadly I cannot check this since I do not have the laptops anymore. Will be sure to look into it on my next one though.

              Thanks for the info!

    • uis@lemm.ee
      4·
      21 days ago

      It’s Linux kernel feature. It’s done purely in software.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        21 days ago

        Which is why I’m saying I don’t buy it. Hibernate is notoriously terrible in every distro because it’s not working right for most cases because the kernel doesn’t do it well. And I know that’s really not the kernels fault, because every manufacturer has some stupid implementation of S4 (and S3, frankly) that makes it fail.

        • uis@lemm.ee
          4·
          21 days ago

          S4? Hybernation on hardware level is regular shutdown. Then regular boot happens, kernel sees swap partition marked as hybernation state and restores it.

        • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          21 days ago

          Hardware shouldn’t matter. Hibernation requires big enough swap to fit all of memory and kernel needs to start with resume parameter that points to the swap space it uses for hibernation. Some distros (including mainstream ones like Ubuntu) don’t configure that by default assuming most people don’t want to use it.

    • IsoSpandy@lemm.ee
      2·
      20 days ago

      I don’t know about others here but I manually hibernate with

      systemctl hibernate

      And it works pretty well. I set up 16gb swap for my 16gb ram (Which I know is overkill) but it works. I am on Fedora 40