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killerstormtoday at 9:04 AM1 replyview on HN

MacOS has no problem with hibernation because hardware and software are designed together: it uses TPM to manage swap encryption. I assume "BIOS" is also optimized to enable fast boot on sleep.

Linux can work with TPM but it's never as smooth. (Unless I guess you make it custom for your specific setup.)


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cedillatoday at 9:35 AM

I have FDE with keys in the TPM. It's pretty smooth bit required a one time additional step in Fedora. It's also probably not very secure, but my threat model is simple theft.

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