Bill McGonigle wrote:
The parenthetical is the actual reason people don't like to
reboot and
may ignore security updates. Boot times are trivial in comparison to
restoring one's application state, for anything beyond the most trivial
of use cases.
The average home user turns his/her computer off when going to sleep, so
he/she reboots at least once per day. Heck, even I do that. Leaving my
computer running when I sleep wastes power and makes me sleep badly
(probably because of the noise from the fans, though I don't exclude
electromagnetic waves possibly having to do with it as well (but no, I
don't use tinfoil hats or similar nonsense ;-) )). Home users with record
uptimes are a small minority, even if there are probably many of those on
this list.
Kevin Kofler