I don't trust anything in power management to work right on Windows (or Linux.) It is way better than it was in 2000 when I was working with a businessguy who had a Windows laptop that needed several hard reboots a day.
Right now I am listening to music on this computer while I work on another computer. When the screen turns off on this computer the headphones get switched to headset (telecommunications) mode and the music quality goes down... On a desktop computer where saving power is not a big issue and I certainly don't want worse audio just because the screen powered off.
It's been a long term issue that USB devices will not work properly if USB power management is enabled and that's scary when some of those devices are mass storage devices that could corrupt data.
As a single vendor, I trust Apple better to get things like this right, but I don't particularly like MacOS.
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I don't trust anything in power management to work right on Windows (or Linux.) It is way better than it was in 2000 when I was working with a businessguy who had a Windows laptop that needed several hard reboots a day.
Right now I am listening to music on this computer while I work on another computer. When the screen turns off on this computer the headphones get switched to headset (telecommunications) mode and the music quality goes down... On a desktop computer where saving power is not a big issue and I certainly don't want worse audio just because the screen powered off.
It's been a long term issue that USB devices will not work properly if USB power management is enabled and that's scary when some of those devices are mass storage devices that could corrupt data.
As a single vendor, I trust Apple better to get things like this right, but I don't particularly like MacOS.