Linux Mint Announces Hibernation Re-Implementation and New System Apps

Linux Mint is one of the most widely recommended Linux distributions, especially for those looking to move from Windows to Linux, since it features a familiar layout and is very beginner-friendly. However, it is still based on Ubuntu and thus subject to many of Ubuntu's upstream decisions, like the prior removal of hibernation support in favor of suspend. In a recent Linux Mint blog post, previewing upcoming chanes to Mint, the development team behind the distribution argue that, while suspend is useful and widely supported, it results in phantom battery drain in most cases and can result in a dead laptop battery within 2-3 days.

With this justification in mind, the development team has confirmed that it has re-implemented support for hibernation in Linux Mint, with a new GUI page in the System Administration tool with toggles to enable specific sleep modes, including suspend, hibernate, suspend then hibernate, and hybrid sleep. There is also a dedicated drop-down to configure more specific hibernation and sleep modes, and there is a section that automatically detects problems with the configured sleep modes to make it easier for users to fix them. Read full story