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And it's crap across the OSes. On Linux laptops don't wake up from sleep, on Windows they keep waking up when nobody asks for it.

In our home office room there's three laptops. My private one running Fedora, my work PC that sadly runs Windows and my wife's laptop also running Windows.

My work laptop and my wife's laptop keep waking up wasting electricity, and my private laptop needs a hard reset to wake it up every second time.

That feature should be stupid simple, yet it doesn't work across the board.

Rant over.

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[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (6 children)

And it's crap across the OSes.

Never had these problems with MacBooks. It’s probably one advantage of the OS and hardware being made by the same company.

[–] miguel@fedia.io 22 points 1 week ago

I noticed the same. The old macbook that I restored to become my 'writing' machine can sit asleep for a week (as I found out by accident) and just pops right up when opened. My windows and linux laptops have so many sleep issues.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Agreed. For all the downsides people point out with Mac’s, they handle this and battery life quite well. My daily driver is a Mac, and everything I connect to runs some flavor of Linux. Then there’s the Windows 11 thing my work foists upon me.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

That's fair, never had one, so I can't judge that.

[–] TVA@thebrainbin.org 13 points 1 week ago

Agreed, I disable sleep on all laptops other than my MacBook and my work laptop which manages to drain its battery and overheat itself on my bag semi frequently.

The MB has never had negative issues with sleep.

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never had problems with sleep. Neither with fedora nor suse nor arch

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I wonder if the hardware you use is better supported for/by Linux.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Macs aren't immune to S0 sleep options. The Apple silicon CPUs are just so efficient that when it fails to fall to sleep it doesn't matter. Intel ones it sucks balls when it fails.

[–] ChokingHazard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Even my Intel MacBook Pro slept like a champ. They aren’t 100% immune but 99.95% I didn’t have an issue compared to my work windows laptop which was like 25% sleep worked and woke up correctly.