Bug#987503:
I tried hibernation on Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 1, Gen 5, Gen 7, and Gen
11. They all work. As per
https://chaos.social/@waldi/110683468203241035 , I believe that the
definition of "modern system" Waldi refers to means catering to a
Windows world, something not deeply relevant to the Debian use case.
Steve's point about servers with more RAM than local storage caters a
nice use case to the detriment of the default. It does not design for
the common case with significantly more local storage than RAM, and
certainly violates the principle of least surprise.
Server operators are also more likely to have automation, change
control, Q&A processes, custom install options, hardware, etc. than
normal users. In other words: They are more likely to diverge from the
default settings.
Desktop users likely do not care, or notice, either way.
Using only part of the local storage and reserving more with LVM is
certainly not the default use case, either. It is also not the default
behavior of the guided installation.
As such, the current behavior is a breaking change for laptop users
and leaves them with a broken system; when they realize why
hibernation does not work they need to reinstall the system or
reformat by hand with all the data moving that entails.
The fact that we're stuck with this for a whole stable release cycle
makes things even worse.
Richard
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