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Even if the system starts quickly enough to not matter that much, keeping state still matters. An IDE, any documents that are open in other applications, possib
by Delk 6y ago
Even if the system starts quickly enough to not matter that much, keeping state still matters. An IDE, any documents that are open in other applications, possible virtual machines etc. are immediately there where you left them after resuming from sleep, but not after a boot. I also find it easier to resume my mental state when things are as I left them without having to bring them up again.
- kristofferR 6y agoFrankly that is one of the major advantages of macOS, it's indispensable for me.
- Delk 6y agoWorks For Me(TM) on Linux and Windows 10, but macOS has of course been for a long time known for pretty quick suspend and resume.
- kristofferR 6y agoMost apps on Windows I use at least doesn't have that, I need to reopen apps after a reboot (unless they auto-launch at all boots) and the windows definitively doesn't stay in the same position and have the same contents as before the reboot. I haven't used Linux desktop lately though, but I'm not aware that they had an API for that.
- Delk 6y agoAh, you mean session restoration rather than reliable sleep. You're probably right. Linux desktops environments (or at least some of them) used to have an attempt at something like that, but I think it only worked for applications that made an effort towards it, and I personally haven't even tried to see how or if that works nowadays. Suspend to RAM and hibernation fill that hole for me, although it's admirable if someone has been able to properly solve the problem of restoring the session after a full reboot.