Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> writes:
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.
I think most people hibernate or suspend when they go to sleep.
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