Hibernation shouldn't take long unless you actually have a lot in ram. It won't write empty ram, it's really more like swapping out all pages.

Maybe your ssd is just slow? Some motherboards also take their sweet time.

Windows has had a "fast startup" thing for a while where it hibernates just some parts of the OS.

I used to always disable it because I've run into situations where having it off prevented issues that appeared with it on.

Fortunately I don't have to use any Windows machines on a regular basis now, so it doesn't matter.

Mine's set to 0 unless I'm holding shift

People downvote but i remember when my pc would take 5 to 10 minutes to boot. 30 seconds isn't very long, just turn it on, walk to another room, and it's on by the time you've turned around and came back

Ok I fully understand your point of view but I have small people living with me telling me hurtful things like that windows is better because it starts faster (then proceed to play minecraft without any issue on linux)

I meant mine goes to sleep for when I am not using it. Seems to work fine.

I guess you must have Windows Update turned off, because I feel like I was being forced to restart on a weekly basis before finally moving to linux.
I don't restart unless I'm installing a kernel update or something else that requires it, it's nice never having to come back to "Let's finish setting up yyour PC" or whatever "Please use OneDrive" ad they've put in.

xp or 7?

Sleep is important