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View Poll Results: How often do you reboot your Linux desktop?
Same as a lot of others, my 'desktop' is actually my laptop, so i shut it down when not using it.
Before my actual desktop pc died (capacitors busted on motherboard due to heat) it never was shutdown unless there was a power outage or i hadn't upgraded my kernel in a long while and decided too... in Australian summertime.. more than likely the cause of its demise...
I shut down the computer every night, and then start it up every morning.
But, rebooting during the daily usage, happens only a couple of times a year.
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I can't remember the last time I rebooted, but I changed kernels a while back, and rebooted then. Haven't needed to since. Or if I change hardware and have to shutdown but that was before I installed the last kernel..
I use to reboot no more than once a month, usually for updates (always used Ubuntu distros and currently running 12.04 LTS). About a week ago something changed for the worse... and now my poor Linux box is paralytically slow and occasionally freezing up, forcing daily reboots.
"Weekly"; usually for system update. Occasionally, there's a hangup that requires a complete re-boot, but that frequency is more like "monthly." Laptop- Ubuntu 12.04.
Well I voted for "Only for kernel updates" because that is the closest.
"As needed" would be a more appropriate answer for me. For example when I upgrade KDE, I aways reboot. I upgrade a boot load of packages I normally reboot, depends on what was upgraded. I also reboot if I make changes to the boot up scripts to make sure they work as I intended. Outside of those reasons I can't think of any others.
I don't count these as a reboot. Any shutdown. For example, we lost power three times today. The UPS handled the first short one and the second longer one, a shutdown. I was not home home at the time and with the third power outage the system was already off.
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