Sorry, the following rant is only tangentially related.
New Windows sleep (""sleep"") states are bewildering.
My S/O's new laptop only supports "S0" or "Modern Standby"[0]. It can sit there closed up in its deepest supported level of "sleep" and have its fans spinning and keyboard backlight lit while downloading updates or whatever else it deems important.
Sure, introduce something like S0 and spend time improving it. Try to "perfect" it like how Apple has seemingly perfected its low energy use modes on its devices. It will probably take MSoft 10 more years. But don't also artificially restrict the use of other sleep states. On the new laptop it is supposedly a hardware restriction, but I'm guessing it's more just some firmware toggle (IIRC some laptops have had S1-3 re-enabled via firmware updates, but I'm not entirely sure now).
Edit: it seems that MS has patched a bunch of regedit tweaks that used to allow re-enabling more sleep states[1], though it depends on exactly what laptop model you are on as well I suppose.
New Windows sleep (""sleep"") states are bewildering.
My S/O's new laptop only supports "S0" or "Modern Standby"[0]. It can sit there closed up in its deepest supported level of "sleep" and have its fans spinning and keyboard backlight lit while downloading updates or whatever else it deems important.
Sure, introduce something like S0 and spend time improving it. Try to "perfect" it like how Apple has seemingly perfected its low energy use modes on its devices. It will probably take MSoft 10 more years. But don't also artificially restrict the use of other sleep states. On the new laptop it is supposedly a hardware restriction, but I'm guessing it's more just some firmware toggle (IIRC some laptops have had S1-3 re-enabled via firmware updates, but I'm not entirely sure now).
Edit: it seems that MS has patched a bunch of regedit tweaks that used to allow re-enabling more sleep states[1], though it depends on exactly what laptop model you are on as well I suppose.
[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/power/system-... [1] https://superuser.com/questions/1179987