How often do you shutdown your computer?

What's that? Some form of update? Lol

@ScribeOfGoD I'm asking because 90% of complaints i see with windows are regarding updates. I shut mine down every day and have had no problems with updates...

@arcsector a few times every day lol

@Stuxnet i knew you would; you're not the person who goes on devRant to complain about updates

only when it either crashes or battery drains to 0 because I fell asleep with lappy on my belly or did not plug the charger's cord in properly.

`sudo reboot` and `sudo shutdown -h now` is not something I have used for a looong time [months]

Home: daily
Work: Friday afternoon

Once a month, I guess.

Windows: once a week, max
Linux: about the same
BSD: never, lel

@C0D4 Same as you! 🍻

Does sleep or hibernate count?

@DannySu Nope, it does not. It's like "shutting down" a Windows machine with "fast boot" enabled.

Why would you let a non-server run when you're not there?
Normal mainboards and power supplies are not made for 24/7 service so the will age more quickly.
Also imagine all the wasted energy...

At least y'all are honest

± Every day

Once every few weeks... but I run Linux and my password is needed for the updates to start..

Every day, and almost never had an issue with windows updates

Home - after using it, so at least once a day.

Work - IT restarts it every Sunday.

@netikras My laptop would just go into hibernation if the battery drops to a certain threshold.

Every couple of weeks? Maybe months? Usually just to make all the lights in the room go off.

I'm using Debian, so it doesn't start dying of old age after a few days like another OS I could name 😋

I restart my work lappys (OSX) every month or two for updates.

Daily, once I don't need it anymore for the day. Both at my company and for my private machine.

@Root in my experience osx dies of old age after about two years... especially the desktops... which model are you using?

@netikras

Even better, shutdown now

Best yet, poweroff

Never, i literally have the case key set to Hibernate and i manually press it as a mental break (it helps that it is big, red, and hexagonal x)
Then i shut off the power breaker on the extension cord going to it for good measure. (i do this to preserve its capacitors)

Takes less than half a minute with the 660p Intel nvme drive i bought... money well spent.