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I have a colleague who has a fear of closing any window. He'll let his Mac run for months on end without closing any of the windows he's opened. He also has all kinds of browsers with tons of tabs open. He's a designer so I get his urge to not do all the technical bits and bobs every day, but for the love of zalgo restart your computer once in a while. Or at least close windows you don't use. It's come to a point where non of us want to help him, because helping him out takes forever with his slow as shit computer. We've asked/told/joked about it too him several times, but he just doesn't want to listen. At one point when I was helping him everything took so long that I decided to reboot for him. And of course Mac had to go and reopen every window that was open during shutdown, which took another good fifteen minutes. Shite OS. And naturally he spent the next hour fixing everything the way he liked it. He hasn't turned off his computer since (couple of months ago), except for when we moved to a new building a month ago.

Just had to get that annoyance of my chest.

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  • 23
    This fellow doesn't seem to understand his tools.
  • 19
    That man needs to see a doctor.
  • 10
    If he is using chrome show him an extension like tabcloud or another session management extension. Then he can just close the window and not worry about losing save tabs. But seriously, all PCs even servers need reboots eventually.
  • 4
    Why restart? I have no problems with my consistent 3-4 month uptime. My raspberry pi has been up since the update to Jessie, and it's still working fine. It's the sysadmin mentality: avoid restarts like the plague.
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  • 4
    I keep my windows and tabs to a minimum - focused on what I am working on. However, I do keep my mac running for weeks at a time.
  • 4
    It sounds like a very specific OCD...

    While I do believe the real problem is the amount of stuff open, I do like to turn the computer off, not because it is "required" but not to waste electricity.
  • 2
    @nickpapoutsis more precisely: a psychologist. This sounds like some weird OCD
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