the more time and effort is like, literally a couple of seconds for most pcs, unless it has a hard drive

for now i kind of have to turn my pc off all the time because the roof has a couple of leaks right on top of where my stuff is and it could rain at any time. when i move i’ll probably keep turning it off though, as i always turn it on and go and get something to eat, so boot time makes no difference, and i just personally hate it when it turns on from any key press

i agree

i mean, i used to have an old power supply that made a pretty loud high pitched noise constantly so i had to always turn the switch to go to sleep. maybe they have something similar in the motherboard

sure? i could bring the same argument back to you:

why wouldn’t you shut it down? so that you can wait a couple of seconds less?

there’s basically no difference. it only depends on what you’re used to doing and maybe if you care about the little electricity that’s being used constantly for little to no reason

oh that makes sense, thx for explaining :D

don’t “no shit” me after you say something dumb and obvious

no, i was joking about the windows part there

i’d say too long is 1 minute or more

is that a button or a futuristic flying police car

i’m on the 🟡 help my emoji has no face the sparrows stole it again

if you always shut it down, when it has an update it’ll force you to update and shut down. but people don’t like shutting down their pcs for some reason so yeah ur right

that’s why they specified that gnome does that

unless you’re gonna use it later, like in case you have a bunch of programs open that you’d need to reopen and open a bunch of project files

edit: for some reason my train of thought went everywhere other than the rails at the start

isn’t the joke in the bottom that the pc and you are both sleeping tho

that is crazy what

damn, that sucks

also because that’s the only thing about that ex i know, the only conclusion i can make is that you stopped dating because of random middle of the night RGB raves

i didnt know arch did that. never happened to me, though i guess that’s because i update it like once every month or every two months, sometimes every day (depends on how long i can forget about updates existing)

from what i understood it wakes up randomly to check for updates, then goes back to sleep. or maybe it just stays on? im not sure

me too. i see no reason not to shut it down, unless boot time takes way too long (you dont have an ssd), you use windows (always takes too long), or you have a bunch of apps open and don’t want to lose the workflow.

though i just have to shutdown anyway because my pc is right under a couple of roof leaks and it might rain while i’m sleeping or not at home

what i’d day is “always turn off your computer when you’re done using it”, meaning you sleep it when you have work you don’t want to lose.

yeah if ur working on something you should sleep the computer, but if you’re working with, like, one app, or if youre not working on anything, i see no reason not to shutdown ur pc