[TriLUG] Speaking of Technology

[Andy Random via TriLUG]

On Thu, 10 May 2018, Bill Farrow via TriLUG wrote:

> I can just shut the lid on my Lenovo x220 running Kubuntu and it
> suspends to RAM. Opening the lid wakes it up again.

I recently installed Ubuntu Mate (18.04) on a Lenovo X201 and have the 
same experience, it just works when I close the lid and restores fine 
later.

I've also got an old Acer netbook (circa 2009) with Lubuntu (14.04) on it 
where closing the lid doesn't work but suspending from the menu and 
restore works fine.

However on my Lenovo T400 running Mint Mate I see the same problem 
described earlier, suspend seems to work fine (either from the menu or by 
closing the lid), but I've never worked out how to restore after the 
suspend.

The conclusion that I draw from this is that it is probably isn't hardware 
or distro age related, but just a mater of getting the configuration 
right.

And possibly controversially Ubuntu seems to do that better "out the box" 
than other distros I've tried.

   Andy