Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way

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Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way
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I just shut everything down.

I can't think of a scenario where I need a PC/laptop in less than 10-20 seconds.

Phone? Sure, if I want to take a quick photo or something, but a PC? Where's the hurry?

Mostly for not loosing unsavable work across transit. Though, Windows has kinda blurred the line between shutdown and standby, so now you can do neither (I guess you can still shutdown properly holding down the shift key while pressing the button, but who thinks about that?).

But standby was indeed much more prevelant when booting your laptop took 2~5min.

Are you referring to windows fast startup? or did windows add another layer to my pc not just shutting down

Yup, that's the one.

Had quite some problems with programs not cleaning caches properly and drives having weird behavior when accessed in offline state when they first introduced it, though I imagine it surely must have become more robust by now.

holding shift key

Windows: HEY BUDDY, YOU TRYNA USE STICKY KEYS? NO? AIGHT, IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND, JUST PRESS SHIFT AGAIN!

I don't want to shut my PC down just to walk a few blocks down the road to get lunch.

S3 standby my machine takes 10 seconds to wake up, S0 standby my machine takes 5 seconds to wake up, but to fully boot up from off and reload everything to where I was will take minutes and destroy my poor battery. i9 and nvme ssds are not power friendly.

I use my computer as my main communication device. When I wake it up, I want all my apps refreshed and ready, texts and mail downloaded, and everything ready to go. Then again, that’s why I have a Mac 😂 works great

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