I’m sure I’ll understand those words eventually. I wasn’t sure what the difference was, so just tried hibernation. But I haven’t tried any swapping of partitions or partitioning at all, it was just a standard debian install that gave me the option, which I haven’t touched since.

I started down the Linux route over the weekend and put my computer in hibernation and couldn’t figure out how to wake it up from its torpor without restarting. So I’m going with suspension for the time being