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by alganet 345 days ago
My OS gets slower and buggy if I don't reboot. So I'll try to convince my users to reboot often and optimize their workflows for rebootability.

Feels like trying to solve a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.

Once an OS that doesn't require reboots appear, this concept will look silly and everyone that optimized their workflows for reboots will look like dorks.

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It took _decades_ for things to get to the point where "turn off the computer and turn it back on again" was not the go-to advice for all desktop tech problems.
This actually only really applied to windows.

Bad things can happen if you just reboot Linux when you have a problem.

And macos (used to be?) something i restarted once every few months. Any issues would just need an application or finder restart at worse.

I agree, there is no innovation whatsoever in this approach.

Furthermore, it ignores important lessons we've learned a long time ago.