I have a Lenovo Carbon X1 that is a few years old (7th gen), and I am running Fedora 38.5 with GNOME 44.5. The issue is that the system does not sleep properly. If I close the lid, nothing suspends properly, so if it is not on a charger or shut down it will die within several hours in my bag. Are there any distros that handle power management and suspend status on this hardware better than Fedora?

  • albsen@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago
    1. you’re likely describing hibernate not suspend suspend has different states and the most common one is suspend to ram which needs a low concurrent supply of power and that’s on all laptops the default - certainly on all thinkpads I own
    2. check the systemd configuration file for your close lid actions such as suspend
    3. hibernate means the machine is completely off and only works if you installed the OS in a specific way (please search how to install fedora to do this)
    4. fedora is not superbly newbie friendly, maybe try ubuntu, linux mint or popos which usually work out of the box