Last time you shut off your PC?

[Morae]

I turn my computer off every time I go sleep and then first thing I do when I wake up is to turn it on.

I dont like it making noise next to me.

[procne]

Well yeah, it handles sleep right.. But that doesn't clear RAM. Which can cause issues.

Possibly, but until I feel the lack of RAM there is no point in rebooting. Usually closing and opening web browser is enough to clear a few gigz of ram.
Also, the "doesn't clear RAM" is usually caused by programs keeping more RAM than they need, because there is no lack of it. But the moment RAM runs out most of those programs nicely free most of the memory.

In any case, sitting at 32 GBs I haven't ran out yet.

[Temp name]

Possibly, but until I feel the lack of RAM there is no point in rebooting. Usually closing and opening web browser is enough to clear a few gigz of ram.
Also, the "doesn't clear RAM" is usually caused by programs keeping more RAM than they need, because there is no lack of it. But the moment RAM runs out most of those programs nicely free most of the memory.

In any case, sitting at 32 GBs I haven't ran out yet.

It's not that you'll run out, it's that the RAM will error out, or cause issues.

That's not how computers work. Many of us don't use them just for one thing at a time. When you use your computer to do real work, getting your work environment set back up is a bit of a hassle.

Not for my work. I do video editing, and it's pretty simple to open back up. Just open the project file and the source folder and that's 90% of it

[Ghostpanther]

Dude. Do you never clean your house? Do you not own a vacuum? How is your computer gathering so much dust inside?

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Dude, any house is going to have dust inside. No matter how often you vacuum your floors. Unless your have a air filtration whole house system and your house is sealed with Ceranwrap. Which is not healthy by the way. Open your computer up and check. I think you will be surprised.

[Sencha]

Every night. It boots in 5 sec so no reason not to shut it off.

[Ravensea]

With an SSD my PC starts up in 3 seconds. I shut it off for the night everynight. Even when I had no SSD i did the same.

[Serpha]

With an SSD my PC starts up in 3 seconds. I shut it off for the night everynight. Even when I had no SSD i did the same.

3 seconds my arse, why do people feel the need to exaggerate startup time.

[Dunkelzahn]

Last night.

It's healthier for the PC (there's a reason "did you turn it off and on again" is often the first question from an IT guy), it's healthier for the environment (no power consumption > small power constumption), and there's just no reason at all to keep it on for the vast majority of the population.

[Loveliest]

I shut it down if i have work the next day, I leave it on if I don't.

[Popastique]

Every night

[GreenJesus]

In college when I had a shitty hard drive? Nearly never. Now that I have an SSD? When I go to bed.

[Sámsa]

I shut it off everynight

[LemonDemonGirl]

Yesterday when I couldn't get Battle.net to open, and because Blender also froze

[nocturnus]

PC whenever I leave the house, or go to bed.

Macbooks I merely close the lid.

[ZazuuPriest]

3 seconds my arse, why do people feel the need to exaggerate startup time.

My computer starts off a M2 card, it takes about 3 seconds to start up, why do people feel the need to show their ass in the comments section. If youre poor and booting of a regular HDD thats fine but dont speak on shit you dont know.

[Temp name]

My computer starts off a M2 card, it takes about 3 seconds to start up, why do people feel the need to show their ass in the comments section. If youre poor and booting of a regular HDD thats fine but dont speak on shit you dont know.

It really doesn't. It's like 5-10 seconds if you actually turn it off.

[Sughs]

Usually every night but sometimes I go for a week without doing it.

[procne]

My computer starts off a M2 card, it takes about 3 seconds to start up, why do people feel the need to show their ass in the comments section. If youre poor and booting of a regular HDD thats fine but dont speak on shit you dont know.

What do you mean by "starts off". Boot after shutdown? After hibernation? Waking up from sleep?
It takes literally 5 seconds for my pc, after pressing power button, to get to windows login screen from sleep. Please don't say it's because of my hard drive.
When booting up after shutdown, after 5 seconds at most I will see bios screen.

It's very difficult to believe anyone can boot up from full shutdown in 3 seconds.

[Drusin]

What do you mean by "starts off". Boot after shutdown? After hibernation? Waking up from sleep?

I made the same mistake as well, I think he's saying "My computer loads off of a M.2 drive"

It's very difficult to believe anyone can boot up from full shutdown in 3 seconds.

What if he's running Arch Linux :P Then he can get to his desktop in under 3 seconds lol

[Eazy]

I even shut it down a few times a day.

I mean turning it on takes like 5 seconds?
Damn, even 10 seconds isn't that high for me, while people are discussing if 3 or 5 seconds is possible/short enough, lol.