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Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 days ago by DundasStation@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Every night, I put my computer to sleep. But should I be shutting it down every now and then? For example, maybe once a week or once a month?

Just curious to see this question answered from a Linux gamers' perspective.

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[–] Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I unplug the PC when I'm done. There are regular thunderstorms during this season.

So power surges happen from time to time. To prevent my PC from frying I completely cut the power source after I'm done and away from home. And since I'm using an old ass dell monitor (really should start looking for an modern one) I don't have to keep the monitor connected to power for pixel cleaning.

I'm no expert, but using Linux as well, I do reboot mostly since A: my pc wakes up randomly when put to hibernation (haven't fixed it yet). B: I'm using SSDs so a cold boot takes no time at all.

What kind of hibernating are you referring to? Since if its on RAM I can imagine possible data loss when the power is cut.

[–] poinck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Oh, I thought hibernation is always understood as suspend to disk and sleep as suspend to ram.