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View Poll Results: How often do you reboot your Linux desktop?
More than daily. Whenever I leave for very long or when it acts up again. (Finding help at my level of non-expertise for Pinguy Linux, other than installation, is not possible.)
I rarely reboot my machines, except my laptop and I usually only do that when traveling. My five fixed-location machines currently have uptimes of 110 days, 172 days, 172 days, 237 days, and 347 days.
I turn my computers off when I'm not using them for more than an hour or so, so my main system gets booted up more than once a day (if I'm at home), laptop two or three times a week, and my second desktop (Linux/Windows dual-boot) on as as-wanted basis.
Location: Northeastern Michigan, where Carhartt is a Designer Label
Distribution: Slackware 32- & 64-bit Stable
Posts: 3,541
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I said "never:" that really means when I install a full Slackware release.
My systems run on always-on UPS, the two data base servers haven't been rebooted for months, the desktop I work on for months, the lap top is usually off anyway (because I really don't like the thing too much). So far, the UPS hasn't shut anything down this year and only once last year when the battery went flat (in about May of 2013) when the power was gone for four days from a huge storm.
I attribute most of this to the stability and reliability of Slackware; they just sit there mumbling to themselves and don't cause problems.
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