Sure, they do. Then design your workflow in a way that tolerates an outage. What if electricity goes out? A lightning strike? It’s a no-brainier.

Excel stores unsaved data in temp files on disk, just like your vim. Many Windows apps do because of the described behaviour. Use the right tool for the right job.

Do laptops and hibernate not exist where you live? Do lightning strikes reset your computer monthly?

Not that I disagree with you, but some of us still use desktops because laptops don't always get the job done. That being said, how hard is it to hit ctrl-s

I originally wrote "and UPSes" but naïvely thought, "surely I can elide that for brevity"

As for ctrl-s, wasn't running docker containers as a developer a prominent part of this conversation?

I don’t know where you live, but where I live, my Windows admins send me notifications about planned upgrades.

I've a solid UPS.

so you know what I mean