I think they're just new boot goofin'.
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I don’t remember the last time I rebooted by laptop. Of course it doesn’t run Windows either.
I remember the days before fast boot, you'd sit there like it was punishment, while it counted ram, then if you hit a snag, you're in for the big hurt
Well, (potential) customers do care about quite a few completely useless metrics, or ta least meaningless ones. Exactly like they do with their photography gear. Marketing departments need those things to sell new device, right? ;)
It's a nice thing, but not a metric that I'm gonna brag about.
I guess I do. I put the computer (a desktop) into suspend most nights so that it's pretty much up and running as soon as I turn it on the next day.
Even so, rebooting doesn't take that long. 30 seconds tops. Definitely not enough time to visit the bathroom or make a hot drink.
But the advantages to suspend are that it's quick and all my programs are as I left them. A reboot undoes most of that.
Yes, hibernating is also an option to keep open programs, but why do that when it can be quicker?
My only real concern with putting the machine into suspend is if there's a power cut and things end up in a weird state or I lose work because programs weren't closed properly, but then, that could happen at any point when I'm using it too.
The only times I cared about boot times was:
- When BIOS/UEFI goes by too fast and I can't hit the boot menu key fast enough.
- When I got my current computer back in 2022, I went from booting from HDD, to NVMe SSD over PCI-E 4.
ha, i do remember the days of the boot menu being too fast to catch what the keystroke is, or hit the keys fast enough to trigger the bios.. too fast!!
I care about not having slow boot time, but I don't really care if it's fast.