Shut down last thing at night/early morning; switch on after breakfast.

I shutdown whenever I'm done using the computer...

ditto ::

To add on, I always have and one of the reasons I use Linux way more often than Windows is that it boots faster...

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.

The Arch desktop gets rebooted whenever an update requires it. More often than you would think.

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Desktop once a day, laptop whenever I am done with it

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.

On kernel updates. With Fedora that's about once a week.

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.

It may be a good idea to make the poll multiple choice, a few of us have multiple machines that are treated differently.

Thanks for the feedback. In retrospect it likely would have been a good idea, but it's unfortunately not possible to change it now.

--jeremy

I switch of at the end of the day, other then that never have had to reboot.