notice that for some hw parts restart ≠ shutdown & reboot.
if you really want to start fresh, shut your machine down once a week.
Have you restarted your computer this week?
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uhm, do you have a virus or other spyware?
hope not : ) I observed these across three computers on different versions of macOS.
I've been using MacOS for 20 years and I haven't encountered it. I rarely reboot.
Do you have some unusual hardware that requires a driver, or otherwise install something that requires a driver?
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a Linux user, it pisses me off whenever I am forced to reboot, and I'm very disappointed if my laptop uptime is measured in less than months. Needing to shut down to me indicates something is broken.
What can possibly require a laptop to be up for months? I have a Linux server that can run for years without needing a reboot. But my laptop I just shut it down after my work is done
Not having to stop sessions of all kinds of things and restart them for no good reason.
It doesn't require it to stay up, and if things were better at retaining state across restarts I would care less, but it's a nuisance to have to log back into things, and get things back exactly how I left them.
I often have half a dozen projects up on different virtual desktops, and leaving them how they were when I worked on it last makes it easier to get back up to speed.
EDIT: I used to leave screen sessions running on servers instead, as the workaround to having to reboot my local machine. But it's nice not to need to.
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#64My Mac and Linux machine get a reboot every now and then. On the other hand, my work Windows machine, welp…
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
hope not : ) I observed these across three computers on different versions of macOS.
I've been using MacOS for 20 years and I haven't encountered it. I rarely reboot. Do you have some unusual hardware that requires a driver, or otherwise install something that requires a driver?
No extra hardware, stock macbooks and an imac. No fancy apps either, RayCast is probably the only one that overrides default system behavior. It used to be better, a few years ago macOS would run stable for months, but even then I had to resort to ‘killall Dock’ for occasional glitches.
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#66I helped manage 1500 desktops and thousands of VMs over twelve years in a call center and I preached rebooting at the end of the day/shift. There is no doubt that this reduced ticket volume compared to other sites. This included individual and shared desktops.
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#67‘“Microsoft Edge is preve…” Bam! Force quit! Kill kill kill!’ Wait, what? Why is OP using Edge on a Mac? To each their own, it just caught me as odd. And, as Betteridge’s Corollary or whatever demands, the answer to the headline is “no”. Is this like ancient wisdom about batteries, you’ve got to run them to zero once in a while or they’ll get a “memory”? (Which, of course, hasn’t been true for, like, twenty years.)
I've seen a lot of discussion on this recently but I'm not a mac user so my opinion isn't very relevant. Here's a recent recap though https://windowsforum.com/threads/microsoft-edge-on-mac-wins-...>
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I believe this is because of how Mac is designed Yes, that they actually got sleep working properly.
What's the point of sleeping your computer? If you are not using it then it's better to just turn it off
So I don't have to spend 10-15 minutes saving all my open files (including the scratchpad ones I haven't named) and then later reopening all my applications, recreating all of my tmux windows and panes, setting up my vim splits and tabs again, and starting all of my stopped Docker containers?
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#69I remember when Linux users were practically obsessive about uptime and restarting felt like a sign of failure. This was at a time when Windows seemingly needed to restart once or twice a day, at least. These days I like to turn my work Mac off at the end of the week just so I feel a literal sense of closure. It's not really the applications minimizing and running in the background; it's ME.
Restarting windows twice a day meant a productive day, back in the days of windows 98 (which by the way lived well past windows 2000 and windows xp)
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I believe this is because of how Mac is designed Yes, that they actually got sleep working properly.
What's the point of sleeping your computer? If you are not using it then it's better to just turn it off
Now that I have an nvme SSD in all my computers and boot times are roughly 10-15 seconds or so unless something has gone wrong, the advantage of sleeping is somewhat mitigated.
Back in the spinning rust era, though, a good unsuspend could be something like 50 times faster to get to a running computer. Possibly more, depending on what your OS needed to start up.
It is still more convenient to have my previous environment most of the time, and still faster to unsuspend than boot, but it isn't as much of an advantage as it used to be, no.