I mean, why not turn it off when you’re done with it?
Mixed theories on that, and most are older.
On earlier computers, I had several ICs walk themselves out of sockets due to repeated thermal expansion cycles. Keeping the computer turned on eliminates most of that.
Mechanical wear was another problem. Booting a computer was extremely taxing on old HDDs and floppy drives.
Edit: Mechanical stuff also takes much more power to spin up and get running. The energy savings might be measurable if you just kept a computer running and didn’t power cycle it everyday.
Most power supplies are really well designed now but they had a tendency to spike power briefly in when turned on. This was especially bad for older capacitors but also not healthy for the ICs. This still happens to a degree, but it’s not an issue.
Now that boot times are reasonably fast and most everything is solid state and power managed really well, turning a computer off is fine.
However, I just assume most electronics now just go into some type of deep sleep mode unless fully disconnected from any power source. That likely isn’t true in many cases, but I consider it healthy level of paranoia.
Maybe I’m confused here. My Linux server has like 162 days of uptime. I reboot my home computer (arch BTW) like once a week when I remember. But my windows work laptop? If that thing stays on for more than three days shit starts falling apart at random, so it gets turned off nightly.
Windows users be like
Hold on, I have to wait for updatesWhile windows users, just open their windows.
And then jump out of them
At least that’s what i get an urge to do every time i have to use windows
