PikaOS maybe too “hobby oriented” to expect “sleep stability”, but I understand most/all bugs to be debian or kde upstream ones. Is gnome still much better at stability? Is there a distribution that fixed sleep problems for you? open vs closed nvidia drivers?

Are there motherboard manufacturers that suck less at linux?

  • Botzo@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 days ago

    It’s Nvidia that that jumps out in your question.

    They are /were notorious for lackluster support on Linux and sleep/wake issues are /were significant.

    IIRC you still need to configure a few bits to get it to work properly (maybe just a systems service enable?).

    … And it looks like it’s still a constant issue.

    Thread with various fixes and tweaks: https://gist.github.com/bmcbm/375f14eaa17f88756b4bdbbebbcfd029

  • wolf@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    Before asking for another distro, you should figure out, what is the root cause of the trouble you observe. Usually sleep/wake up under Linux are highly hardware dependent. Even the SteamDeck, which has payed first level hardware support by Valve, has sometimes trouble waking up properly after sleep, at least in desktop mode. Good luck!

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    1·
    8 days ago

    No issues with Debian / Ubuntu on many laptops since early 2010s, mostly with Intel graphics. I had a Vostro 1400 with Nvidia and it also resumed fine, but that was 2009-11 so the experience with the Nvidia driver from that time is likely irrelevant.

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    Waking up from sleep is of course part graphics card/drivers, and BIOS code. My husband had his share with his nvidia card crashing the system when coming up from sleep under Wayland, but I believe these things have been mostly ironed now. However, if you have a buggy BIOS, you’re out of luck. I’ve had such a DELL laptop, latest firmware installed, and no matter which distro I tried, it wouldn’t wake up from sleep properly. So, if that’s your issue, there’s not much you can do, apart from getting compatible hardware. There are hardware lists of compatible hardware in some places, including archlinux’s wiki i believe.

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
    1·
    8 days ago

    my Dell laptop on debian can suspend and wake flawlessly, and uses basically no energy while suspended. Like 12 hours later it’ll maybe lose 1-2%.