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nine_k on Sept 16, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: 18 Months with a Framework 13

Because Windows stopped using s3 sleep. Testing and ensuring that s3 sleep works is a cost for laptop makers, and the number of Linux users is apparently not enough to justify it.

mananaysiempre on Sept 16, 2024 [–]

> Testing and ensuring that s3 sleep works is a cost for laptop makers

s/laptop makers/CPU vendors/

Reportedly neither Intel nor AMD are willing to support you if you’re developing firmware with S3 support for a platform using their recent CPUs (I believe that means ≥ 13th gen resp. ≥ Zen 4 but I’m not sure).

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