Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way
The Modern Standby feature in newer Windows PCs never seems to work right.
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Huh, is this also why my gaming PCs the last 5 or so years are absolutely dogshit at staying asleep? I've never come across the term even though I've spent too much time troubleshooting and identifying which peripheral woke the computer up. The most annoying thing is that there is a toggle for "allow wake event" in device manager but it seems to be a mild suggestion at best... For some devices like keyboard and mouse it's 50/50 if it does anything it seems. I've resorted to just locking and shutting the screen off...
I swear Microsoft is intentionally trying to drive me away to Linux. Tried everything you can imagine to stop my pc from waking up when I put to sleep or hibernation. Yet the best I can get is it always waking up first time and then properly sleeping after the second attempt. I'm only stopped because of VR and dumb Anti cheat in a few games.
You're going to hate that laptops like the Dell xps 13 specifically stopped supporting the better, older s3 sleep. Though in some cases linux may work well with "modern standby". It still isn't as good as s3.
Apparently S3 is "less secure" according to FWUPD. Fuck sleep to idle. I hope it dies and S3 (sleep to RAM) makes an epic comeback.
Interesting. The attack involves physical access cold boot attacks and messing with the ram. At that point threatening me with a $5 wrench may be more effective. But I get the idea and a very select few folks probably care a lot about this. Shame we can't just enable S3 in the BIOS.
I don't have this issue, except once when I got my first desktop connected with wired internet. Turns out, yeah the wired internet (or the adapter/driver) can actually wake the computer... Turned it off and been mostly problem free from wakeups.
