Or you have a decent case with redundant hot-swap PSUs, filters and fans.

And VM suspend. Preserve the - why's it valuable? - uptime count without risking missed maintenance.

i uninstalled ubuntu.
i'm back to the m$-bill gates world.

Occasionally, I install or remove something that requires a reboot; even then, I will wait until it is convenient for me to do so, and continue using my system.
Does not happen often though.
And I never have a meltdown (aka Blue Screen of Death).

Currently using Debian Linux 8.2. Have been using Debian for the last two years. Previously played with: Scientific Linux, CentOS, Dragonfly.
Also use Kali Linux for Pen Testing my home network (including Cisco routers, switches, and APs).
I happily left Microsoft, with their endless reboots, and loose security, way behind, long ago.

So...even though I am in the 11-30 days camp for my software uptime; my uptime for the actual machine (no downtime, hard power-offs; HDD failures, etc...) has been far longer (weeks, maybe months.) I wish there was an "uptime" feature in the BIOS of most machines.

I have several Linux machines that have been running 24/7 since the mid-90s. Uptime, however, rarely goes beyond 2-3 years on any of them due to extended power outages whenever we get a good wind storm. I stopped using UPS power supplies years ago as the batteries always failed when they were needed most. So, I don't care about uptime anymore.

Uptime can be monitored in a Linux Terminal, use the command "top" w/o quotes. see attached.

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Or, just use the command 'uptime'.

My old Celeron 633 still has Slackware 10.1. The system is about 15 years old and the battery still remembers the date.
I leave it on for several months at a time with no problems.
Power outages cause FS errors but the ext2fs is always fixable.
Setting up a Athlon 64 bit system now for internet use.

I can relate to that ;-D.

It gets shut down at the weekend. Save electricity when I am not in work.

Uptime on any one of my Lx laptops/boxes is between 10 and 24 hours. I rarely hibernate any of them, if so only because I need to physically move a machine from A to B and then only for an hour at a time... tops. Powering down, unplugging from power and RJ45 sockets almost every night is the rule for me. Why ? 1) to save power, 2) to save whoever's eardrums, 3) to avoid hw failure related to monster power spikes (I have seen what it did to a nice TV set AND a simple coffee machine once in my life --- it's interesting to look at from an EE standpoint, but only if what gets zapped isn't yrs !).

621d 4h 58m 7s
Nagios3 core, Ubuntu Server Machine

For the main desktop -- 7 days for downloading a some torrents. My reaspberry pi is running continuously for about 4 months or so.

22 days

Less than a day.
My main Desktop is used for development. so I have to run slack 14.0 to current. then I have to run ubuntu 14.04 64 bit with a 32 bit chroot for a devel team I am on.
then I run debian 7 and 8 ubuntu 14.04 to 16 for testing builds I build in slackware 14.1. My desktop is a tool. as for my media machine I use for tv and run a virtual world sim on it will stay up for months at a time. But My main desktop is a tool. and I am glad to see people use my work everyday.
TY.