First off, thank you for your time.
I believe there’s a conflict between my SSD, how my operating system is installed, and my ability to hibernate my machine successfully. Details below.
A few years back, I bought a Samsung 860 Evo SSD. For Linux, I was using a 1TB WD HDD and never had a single issue with sleeping it. At one point, I switched to a cheap SanDisk 100gb SSD and also had absolutely zero issues with sleeping the machine.
For whatever reason, when I switched over to the Samsung SSD, I no longer was ever able to get the machine to sleep correctly.
A few years ago, I first had the issue with Ubuntu, and I just couldn’t be fussed with it, so I started saving all my work and powering down every single time. I switched to Manjaro about two years ago and had some similar issues (it’s been so long, though, that I don’t remember exactly what happened other than it frustrated me enough to leave Manjaro entirely because it just never worked when I put it to sleep).
I eventually settled on Linux Mint about 1.5 years ago. Which I know is built off of Ubuntu, but for whatever reason, about 70% of the time, I can put it to sleep and successfully wake it up. However, there’s many times where it just crashes, too. Upon waking it says, “Something went wrong with your screensaver.”
I would like to go back to Manjaro is why I am asking here. Story continues…
I’ve never had issues with any other distros with my other drives, but I’ve consistently had issues with this Samsung drive. I assume it’s doing something super fancy and it’s causing problems ahaha.
One other detail I caught one time that might be relevant… there was a time that I put my Linux Mint to sleep, and when I came back, the screen powered on to the log in screen, but I got distracted for a second, so I never entered my password. I wasn’t gone for more than two minutes and I came back to the screen suggesting the system had crashed. I do NOT have any automatic hibernate stuff enabled due to me having so many issues with recovering it from sleep.
I am VERY unsavvy when it comes to all the backend and stuff here. I know very basic hardware stuff, though I do have a self-built desktop. I know just barely enough to get by. Speaking about terminal and stuff like that borders on gibberish. I can barely change a directory without someone spelling out the syntax really well for me. Thankfully, Linux has gotten really good in recent years.
That said, I would really appreciate it if you talked down to me a bit ahahaha. I don’t mind.
I’m asking here specifically in Manjaro land because I’m planning on reinstalling the operating system in the next day or two and my computer is used for my professional work, so I can’t afford for it to be down for long periods of time. Consider this a preemptive question.
I don’t understand the nature of the problem, but merely the symptoms of it. I’m hoping I’m describing a glaring issue that someone already knows precisely what’s wrong. Or at least we can narrow it down.
Other details that may or may not be relevant:
The machine has previously had Windows on the same drive (dual boot), but I had issues with Windows getting blue screened and got sick of it, so I installed windows on a VM later on a different drive and just clean installed the operating system.
I don’t remember if I use UEFI or whatever because I don’t remember or grasp what it means, but I remember having confusing issues with trying to install the operating system previously because I was using the wrong one. We concluded that I used the “newer” of the technologies, whatever it was and I had no issues (other than the sleeping issue) after that.
I don’t have the spec sheet at the moment, but I have an Asrock Extreme 6+ something or another full ATX mobo that is compatible with my Intel i7 4790k processor.
I have an Nvidia GTX 1080 TI. I don’t think it’s related to it or any of the other hardware specifically since I’ve previously run all the same hardware EXCEPT the SSD successfully.
I have, I believe updated my firmware on my mobo one time like 5 years ago or something. The mobo is pushing a decade old, but zero issues with it, and I’m not sure the firmware has even been updated since I originally did it back then. Again, it wasn’t an issue with the previous drives. It’s not to say it couldn’t have some issue with the Samsung one. Idk. Again, gibberish.
I’ve never attempted to update the firmware for the SSD itself. I don’t believe I have at least.
I do have other drives in the computer that I can free up a partition on if needed. I always kinda wondered if like…I somehow installed my swap or something to that effect on a different drive (like an HDD), if it would allow it to hibernate correctly.
Anyways, that’s all I know up front. I’ll be happy to answer any questions I can. I know I PROBABLY can’t definitively get an answer until I pull the trigger and just reinstall the operating system, but I’m hoping that since it’s something that’s happened (to some varying degree) on every single Linux distro I’ve used that it will be something glaring. I’ll likely try to reinstall the distro this weekend unless I get some very troubling news from someone on here. Also, if it’s related to something outside the operating system, then theoretically, I could probably fix it while my Mint is still installed and see if it worked, though it’s inconsistent when it crashes, so I don’t know definitively how I would test it.
Thanks again for your time and wisdom!