OK, several replies coming:
No one has jumped in to answer my questions about Hibernate and swap file. That alone is interesting. No success stories?
Anyway, in my following post, I’ll list my recipe for Hibernating with a swap partition. You’re free to publish/criticize/demolish in any way you like,
Personally I’ve not used hibernate in years… It made sense with laptops, but I only use desktops these days, so don’t care about the minor power loss of suspend.
Jeeeezzz!!!.
I just tried entering my way of setting up Hibernating.
It was a DISASTER!!
This site apparently interprets normal text characters in a post (like “<>”/…) as HTML attributes and maim the entries.
How should I code my entries here, please? Is 7-bit ASCII allowed?
The problem seems to be, that this forum partially interprets uploaded text as code. In this case <>.
This is a first compared to other forums I visit.
To me (as user), text is text, and I expect it to be treated as such.
That’s the way Discourse works. I can understand your feelings, but it’s the way it is. You can always complain to Jeff Atwood (good luck!) Frankly, the fact that it works this way is a benefit, in my mind.
Getting back at the original issue, I should mention there’s a topic on the Ubuntu Discourse discussing the situation with hibernation. From what I can gather, it’s simply not something that will work the same way no matter what in all situations. Bummer, I know. AFAIK we still have it in the shutdown menu and it should realistically be removed.
You might have noticed my comment there that between the linked Arch docs and the AskUbuntu question that the conclusion to draw is that hibernate cannot be made to work well with all hardware in the same way. In that sense, it seems like there’s no way to make it work for everyone. At least not without some intense kernel work and lots of testing over a huge range of hardware. I’d like to say it’s doable but I can’t see an easy solution.