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Re:Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mo... by Terr_ on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:42PM (#28648145)
> executables that I'm in the process of debugging

In my case, virtual-machines. When Windows 10 decided it had to reboot, it would kill them dead. You can't quicksave those, and even if you did they have a higher-than-normal chance of not coming back up cleanly.

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Re:Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mo... by PeterisP on Saturday September 25, 2021 @10:35AM (#28653505)
That's interesting, I usually treat the ability of easily snapshotting and restoring virtual machines as one of the main reasons for doing things inside a VM.
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Re:Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mo... by Terr_ on Saturday September 25, 2021 @10:02PM (#28657768)
I believe some of the Ubuntu ones would occasionally just not recover correctly, some kind of video-card issue most likely.

In any case, Win10 did not signal VirtualBox to save state -- or else didn't give it enough time -- so I would occasionally come back to my office to find everything I was working on gone due to some mystery-reboot that I didn't recall scheduling.

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