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by fodkodrasz 444 days ago
The most annoying crap with modern sleep is that it doesn't lock the computer, only after some time has elapsed in sleep. I want the computer be locked immediately. Also Keepass cannot hook the sleep event, and lock the database. This is a security nightmare for me, really inconvenient.

Other is that the slightest mouse movement wakes the computer. Disabling wake devices does not work anymore. Guides say disable it in your bios. If there is a configuration option... I don't have (neither on a Lenovo, nor on a Beelink) such option. (Yes, I did the powercfg -wake-armed/device manager rain-dance, to no avail, it worked reliably to configure wake sources on S3)

S3 sleep was good enough for me, and S0 is a large step back in reliability and usability, for no perceived benefit. Unfortunately my newer machine does not support S3 anymore.

With MS copying all the bad ideas from MacOS it is getting ever worse, slowly Windows (being my get stuff done desktop) becoming as unusable my Mac. (ps. I'm was a long time, 10+ years, Linux desktop user, but constant flux of the platform made me move away)
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kbolino 444 days ago
The Macs (at least the Apple Silicon ones) do it much better, though. In most cases I can see minimal battery loss even over days. Whereas the Windows laptops are good for maybe a few hours on sleep. Whatever Apple is doing is miles apart from Windows/PC in terms of implementation even if they are theoretically the same.

However, the "trick" to disabling mouse wake-up for me has been to go into Device Manager and disallow the individual mouse from waking the machine up. It's annoying because I'd still like to have it wake up on button press but it extends the battery significantly. Even on desktop, it's useful to keep the system asleep and not spinning up the hard drive and waking the monitor pointlessly in the middle of the night.

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fodkodrasz 444 days ago
Unfortunately having disabled all devices as wake sources does not help in my case (actually a HP and a Dell machine are also affected in the household). It doesn't matter if I click through the device manager or the powercfg (they are equivalent). S0 is disappointing for me so far.

My Mac (M1 Air) does this a bit better indeed, but I hear colleagues also cursing it for heating up in the backpack, and such (M2 CPU). Still I think most of the copied stuff made windows worse (lots of UI/UX stepbacks also).

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