At least every day. Sometimes in between if I have ran any updates.
Ask HN: How often do you restart your computer?
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#12Windows: once a week or as needed.
Linux, whenever I feel like it. 117 days on a home server right now. 42 days on a laptop.
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#14I usually hibernate instead of fully rebooting (and since it’s Debian the machine really is off until I turn it back on). That I do multiple times a day. But unless I actually need to hibernate to keep some things open, I will always turn it off normally.
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#15> How often do you restart your computer?
Every day. Whenever I clock out in the afternoon, I turn it off. When I want to do private stuff, I turn it on again, and turn it off when I'm done. The only thing with uptime worth mentioning in the house is my Pi Zero running PiHole.
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#16For my Linux laptop: once every couple of weeks or so. It wouldn't even be that often, but every once in a while I'll suspend it by closing the lid, and when I reopen it, it won't come out of suspend without a power cycle. Doesn't happen very often, and boots are super fast, and all my apps auto-restart, so I don't really worry about it.
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#17When the battery won't keep my Linux laptop in standby for long enough.
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#18Maybe once a week... maybe once a month... depends if something bugs out.
My Macbook and Linux PC both hibernate after an hour or so idle time. And I only restart as its usually a quicker fix to turn it off and on than find out the process with the issue, etc.
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#19MacBook Pro: every couple of weeks
Windows: every couple of days.
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#20Out of habit I power down computers I don't use any more. Every workday my M2 MBAir work laptop is booted from cold and shut down after work. Personal MBAir 2017 is the same.
Even my TV and XboxSX get properly powered down when not in use.
Exception to the rule is my iPhone (7 Plus) and iPad Air (2019)