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How to Enable Linux System Suspend to RAM/S3 on Alienware
TL; DR: No you can’t. Thanks to Dell and Microsoft. And why would anyone run Linux on an Alienware gaming laptop anyway? Well, I do. I tried to enable deep sleep for my Alienware laptop running Arch Linux. While I couldn’t be bothered to do this on some other laptops because even in the default…
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Arch Linux on Alienware M18R2 and What Works in 2025
As 2024 comes to its end, I decided to try Arch Linux on my new massive Alienware M18R2 laptop. The last time when I tried Arch Linux was years ago so I’d expect it’s much easier to install but probably not as easy as installing Ubuntu or Fedora Preparation To preserve the factory partition with…