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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by bigyabai on Thursday January 01, 2026 @10:11PM (#46460998)
Macs do sleep well, when they manage to sleep. Sometimes macOS takes issue with certain programs, the last stack I used at work had a ~50/50 chance of inhibiting sleep when it was spun up.

All in all, I've given up on sleep entirely and default to suspend/hibernate now.

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by Klonoar on Thursday January 01, 2026 @11:19PM (#46461366)
A buggy program preventing sleep is a bug in that program, not a mark on the overall support and reliability of sleep functionality in macOS.

There are valid reasons why a program might need to block sleep, so it's not like macOS is going to hard-prevent it if a program does this. Most programs should not be doing that though.

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