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The main thing I'm learning from this thread is that a surprising number of people don't shut their machines down when they're done using them. Which is wild to me.
A lot of modern windows laptop don't let you shut them down.
They use something called Windows Hybrid Sleep and it should be illegal. Selecting shut down in windows will keep the machine in a state where it will turn on at random times to check for updates. Especially fun whrn in your backpack creating a furnace.
Thankfully it can be disabled via AD policy.
Shouldn't have to use fucking group policy just to stop your machine updating at inopportune times. Fucking Windows.
It's always funny to me when people call Linux complicated and in the next sentence say shit like that
As if doing registry edits and group policy stuff is acceptable for basic features and settings
Ah yeah I forgot about hybrid sleep as I turned if off years ago and forgot it existed. Such a nonsense feature.
Ah yes, the greek hydra of IT. Disable one policy, two more shall take it's place.
Or just disable the Fast Startup option
I remember you have to press either Shift or Alt for the shutdown button to actually shut down the PC.
You dont need to use group policy.
Admin console: powercfg.exe /hibernate off
Now its off. Hybrid sleep is just a faster Hibernate.
Or just turn off fast Startup in the power settings.
I meant that you can thankfully disable it with group policy so that the 3000 laptops I manage at work don't all cook in backpacks every day.
is that not on by default for every windows installation?
Why would you? Sleep uses so little power and the resume is instant.
If it wasnβt for S0 standby being such a piece of shit Iβd never shutdown my computer unless it was for an update or hardware maintenance.
I mean since the advent of SSDs I've not found the boot times of computers to be all that slow and I typically quite like coming back to a clean desktop on a new day rather than having junk from yesterday being thrown at me.
Even if the boot time is fast, you lose a lot of the program states. Not only it takes extra time to load those applications, it's also a fair amount of effort to put everything back where it should be.
If it was necessary to shut computers down, no problem, it's not too much time and effort. But there's normally no need to shut computers down, it's just wasted time with no benefits (usually).
yeah if ur working on something you should sleep the computer, but if you're working with, like, one app, or if youre not working on anything, i see no reason not to shutdown ur pc
For me the only thing I needed to "put back where it should be" was my VPN. Bu I switched to wireguard from Eddie, so now I don't need to adjust anything on startup
Exactly. Plus live kernel updates. There is really no reason to reboot. Occasionally I have to shutdown to unplug everything and rearrange my office. Once or twice a year, that's good enough.
See I want all the junk from yesterday.
Just like the brain computers need off-time to calm their electrons and unflip their bits.
/s but a lot of issues really are solved by a reboot
Because a laptop waking from sleep while in a bag is a fire hazard.
Have you seen how fast computers turn on these days (from complete shutdowns)? It's 2-3 seconds (if hibernation is completely off). Barely an inconvenience - specially not one worth risking the pc turning on by itself on random times.
The only reason why my uptime is only a month is because I took my PC with me on a work trip which involved packing it.
As someone who knows how to manage the power and update settings in Windows to prevent this from happening, I am learning that Linux users may not understand how to actually configure Windows to their liking. Which is wild to me.
Sign in states for tokens expire when you power cycle. If you're in IT or moving between classes, not only would you have to wait for power down and power on each stop you make,you'd also need to sign into every tool you use that requires credentials. I work as a field tech for an MSP. If I had to shut down at the end of each stop and boot back up then I'd have to spend 20-30 minutes signing back into my RMM, ticket system, azure portal, knowledge base etc on top of the site specific stuff I'm already going to have to sign into for that stop. Sleep great. Just disable S0 sleep.
That's ass. Your bosses should be moving away from that shitty software
Shitty software? The software is great. It sucks that we live in a world that needs MFA to be secure. I also don't think any software exists in the IT space that doesn't require some sign in. Every RMM on the planet is going to require secure sign on and so will every knowledge base software. You also need to sign in to access things like domain DNS. Most of my job is locked behind half a dozen sign ins. That's how it goes for MSPs anything else would be unsecure.
When I got my first (and only) PC, it was outright SUGGESTED to never power it down. By HP. So yeah I just sleep my computer, and yes I have to deal with the bullshit in the meme lol
Always wondered why the fuck my PC is awake before I even touch it.
Back in the day we did that because it too long to boot so we never shut it down.
20 years later we have servers at home that we never shut down.
me too. i see no reason not to shut it down, unless boot time takes way too long (you dont have an ssd), you useΒ windows (always takes too long), or you have a bunch of apps open and don't want to lose the workflow.
though i just have to shutdown anyway because my pc is right under a couple of roof leaks and it might rain while i'm sleeping or not at home
honest question, because i use windows and i shut down every day. is 20 seconds really "too long" for a full boot up?
I think a lot of people are still stuck in the HDD days where windows could take 15-20 mins for a cold boot.
But I only sleep windows because I like to get game updates while I sleep.
boot hardly takes any time at all. it's all the programs on the computer that take forever to start.
Ctrl shift esc. Turn off start on boot up programs that you don't want to start.
No point. Sleep works great and live updates are flawless.
To be fair I don't always use it like that but suspend is convenient if I have a continuous work that is scattered all around.
what i'd day is "always turn off your computer when you're done using it", meaning you sleep it when you have work you don't want to lose.
That's what sleep is for. Just lock Gnome and let the computer sleep in a sensible amount of time. Instant on when you need.