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Santo93

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#321526 25-Aug-2025 09:55
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Hey All,

 

I want a linux laptop (preferably mint) that can ACTUALLY sleep, and not run out of battery in a day or two. I only use my laptop sparingly, and having to charge it every single time before using it is a pain. I am thinking a snapdragon, or M2 chip, but I am not sure how mature linux support is for them. 

 

has anyone tried it? how is the sleep mode?

 

I know that battery life will not work as well as the OEM OS, I just want something that sleeps properly and i can open it a week later, and still have 25% battery for a quick task.

 

I currently have a i5-1135G7 Asus laptop


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Santo93

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  #3408903 30-Aug-2025 22:42
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Hi Everyone! 

 

Thanks for the tips: I SOLVED IT!

 

with all the tips about hibernation, disabling the wifi kernel module etc... I looked into it and this is what i found:

 

  • I went into the BIOS and turned off intel VAB (found the suggestion on googles AI summary, AI is good for some things i guess)

     

    • This decreased drain from 10-15%/hr down to about 6%/hr.
  • I updated the BIOS

     

    • 3%/hr
  • I changed the sleep settings to hibernate "deep" sleep instead of s2 sleep:

     

    • About 0-1% drain per hour.

 

To make this change permanent, you can pass a setting to the Grub bootloader (source). As the root user:

 

     

  1. Edit /etc/default/grub using your favourite editor. Use nano if you do not have a favourite editor (trust me on this one, you don't want to get stuck inside vim)
  2. Find the line beginning with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
  3. Add mem_sleep_default=deep within the quotes. For me, the line would now read: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash mem_sleep_default=deep"
  4. Save and exit the editor
  5. Execute update-grub to re-generate the grub config

 

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Source: https://gist.github.com/julianlam/166823c982fd20ee4a748442cc77bbef

 

 


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