I'm a bit confused. Thhe hibernate function has been available in Windows (and also Linux) for years. In Windows 10 you might need to enable it in Power Options in the Control Panel. I'm using it all the time. It's very useful for long travels for example.
Yep, and sometimes it even works. Now imagine hibernate not even being a feature to fiddle with. It just, is. Close the lid, 0 power draw, open the lid, instant resumption of where you were previously. No wake on sleep (and the quirks that come with it), etc.
Classic example of “but you can already do this by configuring X in this settings menu and then making sure to enable it before you leave and there’s just this other one trade off and yea it can be slow and clunky sometimes” vs a solution so native to the platform that it’s not even a thought in the user’s mind.
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).
Fiddle with?
Simply select what action closing the lid performs.
It works every time. I have gone months without shutting down and just relying on this.
