Who cares what Windows prefers, when I'm the user and I prefer Hibernate which works out of the box and I use it precisely because it avoids the issues you mentioned. Why don't you use Hibernate? SSDs are fast enough that a wake from hibernate is not much slower than a wake from sleep.
On Ubuntu I don't even have this option because ... reasons.
Killing all of the wake timers and editing specific keys in the registry will usually fix this, but it's messy and not something typical users are comfortable doing.
This PC was kept reasonably up to date, too (usually installed whatever update at the most a day or two after they came out, complete with the reboot), so not sure what it was hoping to do, exactly.
I'm sure you mistakenly used sleep instead of hibernate without knowing or remembering, to have that issue, or you had the issue where hibernate didn't work and reverted to sleep instead.
I also had that issue and discovered that the Linux dual-boot installation with Grub's changes to the MBR broke Window's capability to hibernate, so me hitting hibernate was actually triggering sleep instead.
Hibernate does not randomly wake up.
The USB bus and sound system is still the weak spot on a windows computer in my experience, this website, reddit, youtube, or dailymail generally takes them out.
Surprised that people used sleep and hibernate, considering TSR's were invented in the dos days and the browser can do lots of fancy stuff.
Theres even a reg setting to clear the page file on shutdown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\ ClearPageFileAtShutdown Dword32 1
You're confusing that with sleep. Windows can't wake itself from hibernate as the machine is fully powered off, not in some sleep state.
The difficulty of disabling wake timers has been exaggerated, though. It's in the advanced power settings, there's no need for the big scary registry.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/63070-enable-disable-wak...
The issue isn't that it doesn't go to sleep. It's that it doesn't stay asleep.
Does the machine go through the steps to save memory to disk and enter a low power state? Yes.
But then windows can and does decide to wake itself up at any time, resulting in physical damage to the machine if it's stored in a closed bag. Discharging the battery and heating up the entire machine dramatically reduces your battery's lifetime. You cannot disable this behavior without going into the registry.
So yes, it 'works', with the caveat that the machine may wake itself at any time, burn through the entire battery and possibly do irreprable damage to your machine.
You haven't read my comment fully or are confusing hibernate with sleep. I was talking about hibernate which 100% works, not sleep. Hibernate can't wake up your laptop as your machine is completely powered off.
That is quite simply not true.
Windows also likes waking itself up for various reasons, but I don't remember if that was hibernate or sleep. Turning off everything except the power button wake up fixed it though.
But I do agree - I would like a working hibernate in any OS I use. The next best thing is never turning it off though.
Which means it's not available. Technically my car can also go diving underwater, you just have to set it up yourself for that.
I expect stuff on my OS to work out of the box, not require hours of dangerous tinkering with the risk of braking, to get something basic to work.
>They don't prioritize support for it because "people who want to hibernate a laptop" is a rounding error in their customer population statistics.
I mean, it's feature that I absolutely use on Windows regularly, which means it matters a lot to me, the userbase of 1, to have it on Linux as well, I don't really care what the opinionated Ubuntu dev team think on the way I'm supped to use my own computer.
