To be clear: hibernate works without any fiddling, but in Windows 10 this setting is not enabled default, you need to explicitly turn it on in the Central Panel

To be clear: hibernate works without any fiddling, but in Windows 10 this setting is not enabled default, you need to explicitly turn it on in the Central Panel, and then it works. I don't know why Microsoft decided not to enable it by default. Maybe they thought the difference between sleep and hibernate is too much to grasp for common users. And sleep works a bit faster (although with modern NVME drivers I don't see as much difference as in the past when you had to write 8 or 16 GB of memory to HDD).