I decided to give an Ubuntu based distro a try on my laptop and installed Linux Mint. I was surprised that hibernate doesn't just work by default in 2025. There are plenty of tutorials on how to enable it though, so I am assuming that you have already

• Made your swap file or partition large enoug...

It's been a couple of years since I last had a go at getting hibernate / suspend to disk working on my Slackware system. Back then the problem seemed to be that the Nvidia drivers just didn't like hibernate. They didn't like sleep / suspend either, but that wasn't as bad. The idea was that when I pr...