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

  • Zetta@mander.xyz
    4·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • stringere@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      22 hours ago

      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.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs

        Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows 98 had a problem with rollovers in a virtual device driver, VTDAPI.VXD, which used unsigned 32-bit integers to measure system runtime in milliseconds; this value would overflow after 49.7 days, causing systems to freeze.[93]

        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.