[hiq]

> It's not unusual to see uptime numbers in the 300s or longer for some people.

Do you mean 300 days? Which consumer OS allows you to skip any reboot for that long?

In practice IIRC macOS and Windows basically force you to do it regularly, with users frequently complaining about this (although they got better at saving and restoring state I think?). Some Linux distributions also ask you to reboot into an updated kernel once it's available, for security reasons.

So I'm a bit surprised that a user would end up with such a long uptime without doing it on purpose.

[xboxnolifes]

More recently with Windows 10? Far fewer. But just back with Windows 7 it was easy to let your computer run close to forever. I would host game servers on my personal computer and it would run for weeks to months without a reboot. I would usually only reboot because I would install new software that required one.