On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:49:12 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

Paul wrote:

Guadalupe wrote:
What are a good set of power options for a desktop that is used only about
an hour a day in the morning?

Computers have sleep and hibernate options.

Hibernate saves the most power, and also saves the session.

Sleep (by itself) keeps the session in RAM - if the
power goes off, the session would be lost.

On a desktop, certainly. On a laptop my understanding is that if the
power went off or the laptop was unplugged, the RAM would be kept
alive by battery power. If the battery got too low, the system would
switch to hibernate, which means that the current state would be
written to disk and the system would shut down.

That's the hybrid option, and it only works that way if it has been
configured to use that option in your power profile. None of my Dell
laptops came configured that way, but that's the option I've chosen.

Having said that, I most often choose Hibernate (from the shutdown menu)
when I'm on the road for work. In my case, it wouldn't make sense to
needlessly run the battery down when it's going to end up hibernating
anyway.