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.
I shutdown my Desktop daily, sometimes more if for example I’m playing in the morning and going out for lunch and coming back in the evening and playing again. In short if I’m going to spend over an hour not using it I’ll power it off, no reason to keep it on and honestly it powers on almost as fast as coming back from hibernation so why bother? That made sense before SSDs, but nowadays I don’t see much reason.
There’s one big exception, and that is sleeping in the middle of a game, to be able to be back in the game in seconds. It’s one of my favorite features of the Steam Deck, but I haven’t tried it on my desktop because I usually use it for other stuff too so it’s not as useful there.
I only do system upgrades every so often, normally based off hearing some new feature in a program I want. When I do, that usually includes a kernel update and it asks me to restart.
I see no point in keeping my power hungry monster awake 24/7. I’m in any game less than 3 minutes after a cold boot.
Mines been keeping me warm through the last months of snow storms.
I’m also a adept of Sleep, I only shutdown when I know I’ll be out of home for a extended period of time or when it randomly hangs 🫠
i usually restart pretty often bc I like to keep it updated
I get a bug with putting mine to sleep - becomes unresponsive and have to manual shutdown. So I’ve disabled sleep. With modern ssds, there is very little downtime on startup. 30-60s or so. No reason not to just shut down and save power.
No, never. Unless I have to leave for an extended period of time or I know there’s going to be a planned power outage.
Currently runs all the time but it also runs Frigate NVR. I also access my desktop with a laptop I use as a thin client.
When I finally have Frigate setup on it’s own hardware I will be shutting my desktop down when not in use.
I shutdown my computer whenever I’m done using it.
You should shut down every now and then. At least on the evening you run an update, as a kernel update might’ve been installed.
No. It’s never shut down. I suspend it when I’m not using it but never shut down.
I used to keep everything running and only turn off the screens but I changed my habit and there was a minor monthly electricity bill decrease that was worth it.
Not shut down, restart.
But with such fast boot times, I just turn it off when I’m not using it.
I always shut down my PC. No need to keep it wasting electricity (even a little) when I’m away and I can wait a bit for it to boot again
My server is the only thing that’s on 24/7. My and my partner’s PCs shut down while we’re not using them. It takes like 10 seconds, maybe, to boot up.
If I’m not actively using my PC for anything it is shut down and turned off from the wall socket. 3 monitors and a pc on the same extension, even when they’re not switched on still draw power. I’m in the UK though and electricity isn’t cheap.
It takes all of maybe 5-10 seconds from power on to desktop, I’ve barely gotten comfortable in my chair before it’s ready for my login, I can’t see any reason whatsoever to leave my PC powered on, ever.
