I am currently running Fedora 29 on my laptop. Whenever I go to take the computer with me somewhere when I pull it out I find it's shut off. I had the computer set to do nothing when the screen closed so I thought maybe the battery was dying even though it was short time periods. It wasn't because it powers up on the battery. I thought maybe it was getting bumped and Linux was shutting down because of that. I treated it like a baby, no change.I tried using Hibernate and suspend and found no change. It would still be off when I went to use the computer.

Admittedly the problem started when I bought this laptop but it's set up how my old one was and it never turned off set to do nothing (Power options) unless the battery died from running to long. I don't mind using suspend/Hibernate but I run programs that require me to have several windows open and other settings that every time it shuts down I have to run around and try and set everything back up.


MY QUESTION.

What would a possible reason for this be? A setting? Hardware problem? Me just being an idiot?

This would probably indicate the laptop-switch event isn't being recognised. That would be a hardware-software problem. I've had a netbook where I could press the switch and everything would work, but closing the lid wouldn't. So would that be hardware or software ?.
You're going to have to do some more investigation - only you have access to the machine.

systemd can introduce clashes in power management with the DE, but by F29 all those should be sorted out - are you using the standard gnome DE ?. Are you using any other power manager ?.

Sorry I am not, I am using Mate. I am willing to do more tests but unsure what tests to run.