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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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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Yep, this.

It varies from distro to distro, but its generally a good idea to do a full reboot after a major update.

I make it a part of my morning ritual:

Set up some tea and run a full update check, reboot, just cuz.

It makes more sense because I like tea, and I don't have it running anything that needs to be up 24/7.