I feel like somewhere around the release of Windows 8 Microsoft's OS division completely lost the plot and they've been coasting on profits from their other divisions ever since.
Then you go into the details of your power plan, through the old control panel they plan to remove, and you see that the hibernation settings is set to 120 minutes, and is not exposed in any way in the settings menu.
What is even the point of allowing me to disable sleep ? I know sleep and hibernate are two different things on a technical and power usage level, but the end user really doesn't care, what he means is "don't turn the computer off".
There are so many things in that same vein that have gone wrong after windows 7, and by the way the windows 11 start menu and right click contextual menu are as bad as people describe them, thank god third party tools easily exists to remove them.
Microsoft lost the phone battle so now they want my laptop to behave like a phone, this is ridiculous.
When the PC is either fully off or hibernates under Linux, it never ever turns on on its own. Wake on LAN and bios timers are all disabled.
I've already complained about this on some other thread, and a poster talked about some kind of timer that windows activates. I think there's some merit to that because it always turns on at night, I don't remember it turning on during the day.
I never went looking for details, since this is only a gaming PC, so it's not that much of a hassle to just turn it off. I'm not confident that an update won't reverse the change.
I've jumped through the obvious hoops of disabling sleep and automatic update installs. If I put my PC to sleep, I want it to stay asleep, I don't want the OS to second-guess me, especially if it's unable to plan for its own configuration that may prevent it from doing what it's doing.
To me, this just reeks of a half-assed attempt at copying apple's "power nap" feature. "Yah, let met check your mail while the pc sleeps (who the hell cares?!) or apply random updates". Except that on macOS, you can disable this with an obvious checkbox in an obvious place. Having to sift through event viewer (which for some reason is unbearably slow even on an 8-core Xeon with an NVMe drive) and going spelunking in the registry looking for undocumented settings is so user hostile.
I’ve never seen what you are describing with hibernation, because it just shuts off the PC. But I have little to none experience with Windows 11.
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On mine it wouldn't sit on the BitLocker screen forever. It would reboot after a little bit which would cause the fans to spin to max for a second. It's like having someone revving a car all night, but with the added anxiety of knowing it's wearing out your stuff.
Microsoft owes me some sleep.
I'm not sure how you're supposed to discover this though. And it's only available on laptops. Somehow windows is starting to divide people into camps of "everything is turning to crap" and "everything is fine, just follow these arcane steps" where previous versions just worked
Things were obviously not as well thought out, Windows 8 was, IMHO, a panicked reaction to the rise of tablet sales at the time.
I had to turn of Windows Ink so that Macromedia Freehand/MX would work.
I need to find a web browser where the stylus selects text, as it has since Windows for Pen Computing, rather than scroll (why is this desirable? Can't one just scroll w/ touch?).
This might explain why they often change the mood.