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i suppose we have come to expect 4 states: - off: no power, no activity - hibernate: no power, no activity session state saved to non-volatile storage - sleep: Minimal power, RAM remains powered with the session state, can be resumed quickly - on

now we essentially have sleep++ and no option to set it back to vanilla sleep.

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Those are the states I expect, indeed, but lately I find them increasingly unreliable. I've had Windows unable to sleep, Linux crashing after hibernating, MacOS issues are addressed aplenty here.

I thought this was a solved issue. How are all OSs suddenly so bad at this? I only really trust on and off anymore.

You do have that option, it's just not the defaut.

For most people these days the primary device is their phone, and so that is the model that modern laptops are trying to follow, as that is what most users will expect.

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