The Modern Standby feature in newer Windows PCs never seems to work right.
  •  Zerush   ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 
    19•1 year ago

    No problem

    • Under “Power Options,” click “Change what the power buttons do.”
    • Click the “Change settings that are currently unavailable” link near the top of the page.
    • Deselect Fast Startup (Recommended)
    • Save Changes
    • Done

    It always amuses me when people say that Windows is easier to use than Linux, which is absolutely false and only coincides with basic functions, but not if you want to make Windows do what the you want and not the other way around. Windows allows you to tame it completely, it has all the necessary settings, but naturally these are becoming less and less intuitive and more hidden.

    •  Squirrel   ( @Squirrel@thelemmy.club ) English
      7•1 year ago

      It’s easier for people who don’t know what they’re doing. The limitations keep those users from breaking things and provide a decent out-of-the-box experience for the user. The very same limitations feel, well, limiting to users like you.

    •  some_guy   ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
      3•1 year ago

      I have a Mac / Linux background. I took a job where I supported primarily Windows machines. I remember wanting to set a machine to NTP to solve an out-of-sync time issue. I knew what the goddamned computer protocol was, but futzed around trying to find where I could enable it for ten minutes. Windows is confusing as fuck. I say that as a person who has since learned where shit is in this bullshit OS.

      •  Zerush   ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 
        1•1 year ago

        Yes, I know. This is why it amuses me when someone says that Windows is a good system for beginners. It is only at first glance, but if you want to access more in-depth configurations so that it does what you want and not the other way around, which is possible, it quickly becomes Comanche territory. Certainly nothing for newbees.

    •  voxel   ( @vox@sopuli.xyz ) 
      2•1 year ago

      fast startup is pretty good tho.
      win11 tases painfully long time to coldboot (2-3 minutes, somehow even slower than linux boot times on an 8 year old laptop) even from a fast nvme drive and fast boot solves that issue

      •  Zerush   ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 
        2•1 year ago

        In 2-3 minutes I am already posting on Lemmy with W10, there is not much difference between cold and fast boot, it may be because of the SSD. I prefer cold boot, because with fast boot it boots maybe a few seconds faster, but a lot of garbage remains in memory that slows down the system.