Laptop manufacturers on their own clearly didn't hurt this (dying) category enough over the years prioritizing shallow form over functionality and constant desi

Laptop manufacturers on their own clearly didn't hurt this (dying) category enough over the years prioritizing shallow form over functionality and constant design regressions, Microsoft had to push some more of their deranged "vision" too. S0ix was a joke when introduced years ago and remains one, but it's not funny to laugh at it anymore because its existence eventually killed the actual sleep state an user expects. There is, without an ounce of doubt, no benefit for an user to have their laptop device continue operating when it's expected to be "sleeping" without intentional, conscious instruction to resume work. Some of the proclaimed advantages to it I distinctly remember were "receiving emails" and "automatic updates when the device is not in use", and while the former is mostly useless because it's not a smartphone, the latter is actively harmful to an user's interests when unprompted. Hibernation on linux and windows (where it's secretly kept away for whatever reason since 8 or so) is far more predictable with any modern sabotaged devices missing S3 support, and modern drives are performant and large enough that it's not going to make much of a difference, at least for pauses that one expects to last more than an hour or two. Some more of the endless compromises to put up with because of unrestrained "courage".