Comment by amoshebb
7 days ago
the only macbook I’ve tried to put linux on was a t2 machine, and it still doesn’t sleep/suspend right, so I’m a bit skeptical that apple is really leading the way here, but maybe I’ve just not touched any recent windows devices either
To be fair, sleep/suspend has been a rather infamously difficult problem for Linux when it comes to devices that weren't designed to run Linux. I think the Macs with T2 chips were a bit weird anyway and I wonder if they had already been working on Apple Silicon Macs that far back and that's why the T2 became a thing?
Apple is also rather notorious for tinkering with Intel's ACPI files, for better or worse. Suspend is finnecky enough on hardware that supports it, and probably outright impossible if your CPU power states disagree with what the software is expecting.