Published Apr 24, 2026, 12:30 PM EDT João has been covering the tech world for over 7 years, with a heavy focus on laptops and the Windows ecosystem. I also love all things tech and videogames, especially Nintendo, which he's always happy to talk about. Prior to joining XDA in 2021, he worked at Neowin: https://www.neowin.net/news/poster/jo%C3%A3o-carrasqueira/ There are plenty of reasons people don't like Windows 11 , and one of them has typically been battery life. It's never fun to pick up a laptop you put to sleep the day before and realize it's dried up in the meantime. That particular situation is actually the main problem with Windows 11 on laptops. Sure, the bloated experience of Windows 11 and the unnecessarily high resource usage when idle are also big problems, but standby battery drain is really the biggest problem, and it's all because of something called Modern Standby .…