I use Ubuntu btw. Poweroff could use more write cycles on the SSD because it has to read everything at startup, but suspend has to keep supplying power to the RAM
I use Ubuntu btw. Poweroff could use more write cycles on the SSD because it has to read everything at startup, but suspend has to keep supplying power to the RAM
You guys are turning off your computers?
I am trying to be more energy conscious so I’ve been turning mine off more as of late, but ya in the past I typically left my machine up for 7 - 14 days and only power off/reboot after updating.
I remember older gaming forums where people would have their uptime in their post signatures.
Edit to add: upon reflection it was all the more impressive because almost all gaming PCs were Windows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs
The horrifying thing here isn’t just the bug, but that this made it into two major releases of Windows because the system was sufficiently-unstable that it wasn’t tracked down for years.
One area where desktop computers have come a very long way in the past 30 years is in OS stability.
Yep, that’s the right timeframe I was referring to.
My laptop, I’d just suspend to RAM, unless I was going somewhere without it for a couple of days or more.
The desktop is always on. The monitors suspend, but everything else is sucking power. I expect with frequency scaling, it’s not as bad as it used to be, but then, in ye oelden days I didn’t do nightly backups to the cloud and disc, or sync data between servers and run other odd, automated jobs.
That was my reaction, to the question, too. I’m not sure what power down options my current (Linux) OS has. I just let the battery die sometimes like a normal person.
Edit: The battery management defaults are so good, I have to forget about it on a shelf for several days before it - well I don’t know what it does, because I’m ingoring it. Maybe it powers down, maybe it suspends, maybe it does some kind of emergency shut down…