monica_b1998@lemmy.worldcake to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-216 hours agoWindows hasn't properly shut down when you click shut down since 2012, and it explains a decade of weird bugswww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down14
arrow-up1106arrow-down1external-linkWindows hasn't properly shut down when you click shut down since 2012, and it explains a decade of weird bugswww.xda-developers.commonica_b1998@lemmy.worldcake to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-216 hours agomessage-square26linkfedilink
minus-squarebad1080@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·14 hours agothe difference between sleep and hibernation is where your session is stored, RAM vs. HDD/SSD
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·13 hours agoAnd sleep doesn’t fully power down but maintains power to ram to keep that session alive. Hibernate writes an image of ram to the hard drive, then powers down completely. With sleep it continues to use a little power, and will eventually have to hibernate when battery gets low. 1
the difference between sleep and hibernation is where your session is stored, RAM vs. HDD/SSD
And sleep doesn’t fully power down but maintains power to ram to keep that session alive.
Hibernate writes an image of ram to the hard drive, then powers down completely.
With sleep it continues to use a little power, and will eventually have to hibernate when battery gets low. 1