Clearly I irritated the Microsoft gods with something here. Soon after my laptop went to sleep, and didn't wake properly.

It's been painful going back to such a fragile OS. I know sleep problems can occur, but it's frustrating to see work also disappear because of it. If my Mac fails in the same way (and it has), all I have to do is reboot, type a password, and all my work is back. Including unsaved work in text editors. The only inconvenience is reestablishing any SSH sessions. And this came in as part of the "iOSification of OS X". Frankly, I'll take that over the Metroficiation of Windows.