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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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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

S0 standby is the problem. It's a flawed idea from the start. The theory is it's more "secure" or something. But like... Who cares about stealing shit from memory going from sleep to wake.

Now my laptop drops 20% charge in 5-10 minutes and goes into hibernation. It draws more power than if it's on.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's not about security. It's about maintaining a network connection so you can stream Spotify and receive Facebook updates while it's "sleeping". It's fucking stupid.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    The only purpose S0 standby has on my work laptop is to make sure that my bluetooth headset always prioritizes connecting to my sleeping laptop in my backpack over connecting to my phone that I want to watch youtube on while on the train.

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