Rant.
So I work in the service desk and the moment and one of our clients use Mac's.

One of the end users called up saying that it was being slow and sluggish.
End user: hi my Mac is being slow.

Me: when did you last reboot it?
End user: last night
*Remotely connects*
*Runs uptime in terminal*
Me: are you sure you rebooted it last night?
End user: yes I close the lid every night...

The up time was 68 days...

Those are rookie numbers.

@jmclemo6 I think to me it was just the idea that she thought closing the lid shut it down

My record without reboot was 8.5 months on windows 2000.

It was long after XP came out so there was very few updates needed and since I used the computer for remote desktop I had to have it running.

It never felt slow or ate memory.

I have not had such stable computer since even if I still only reboot when windows update requires it.

@Voxera Windows 2000 was the best OS Microsoft ever made.

Server with Debian or Ubuntu with 400+ days uptime is not something unusual for me. 2 months in desktop seems ok.

@SystemZ record server was an sql server, also running windows 2k after eol so no updates. We had to move it due to move of server room but it then had an uptime of 1150 days :)

On the other hand a home server using trustix linux on a pentium 2 used to only get a reboot when there was a power outage and I almost never had to touch it during the 2.5 years I had it.

So if setup right using no odd hardware any OS can get good uptime :)

sounds like my kind of cache

@irene mainly because they where end of life and got no or very few updates that needed to be installed.

And windows 2k really was ridiculously stable.

@irene we generally have table power and servers used backup power to.