[pcc]

There are a class of users that really only do a bit of email, a bit of web surfing, and maybe a bit of document editing. (Like my parents eg). From my experience such users tend to remain longer on older hardware, and its turned off most of the time.

I daresay such users would naturally gravitate to whichever environment gets into a usable state the fastest.

[glhaynes]

I treat my laptop like I treat my phone -- always on but it spends most of its time asleep. Only reboot in case of OS upgrade or system failure. I don't really get why people don't do it this way... just close the lid.

[pcc]

Well it presupposes you have an environment where it actually works consistently.

I cannot remember the exact number & types of machines I've used or had provided to me at customer premises over the last few years, but I'm pretty sure its > 10. Its only ever been my MBP that wakes up consistently with everything still intact. <= 10% is a pretty poor success rate...

[plesn]

I only had that kind of experience with my macbook, never on linux unfortunatly.

[vetinari]

I had hangup-on-resume experience on powerbook too. Not very often, about once a month. It was quite annoying.