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Why is sleep so hard for laptops? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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And it's crap across the OSes. On Linux laptops don't wake up from sleep, on Windows they keep waking up when nobody asks for it.

In our home office room there's three laptops. My private one running Fedora, my work PC that sadly runs Windows and my wife's laptop also running Windows.

My work laptop and my wife's laptop keep waking up wasting electricity, and my private laptop needs a hard reset to wake it up every second time.

That feature should be stupid simple, yet it doesn't work across the board.

Rant over.

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[–] 70 points 1 year ago (8 children)

And it's crap across the OSes.

Never had these problems with MacBooks. It’s probably one advantage of the OS and hardware being made by the same company.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Agreed. For all the downsides people point out with Mac’s, they handle this and battery life quite well. My daily driver is a Mac, and everything I connect to runs some flavor of Linux. Then there’s the Windows 11 thing my work foists upon me.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    Agreed, I disable sleep on all laptops other than my MacBook and my work laptop which manages to drain its battery and overheat itself on my bag semi frequently.

    The MB has never had negative issues with sleep.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Macs aren't immune to S0 sleep options. The Apple silicon CPUs are just so efficient that when it fails to fall to sleep it doesn't matter. Intel ones it sucks balls when it fails.

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