Sleep vs Shut Down

[The_Evenger]

should be fine, as long as you don't have a sound card that has firmware that will go corrupt any time it wants and will bring everything down with it when it does

*ahem* sound-blaster z *ahem*

[Fgtfv567]

it's fine, I had to do that when I had my really old shit internet connection, I wouldn't leave it on that long, but still pretty damn long

[Lavachyste]

I think with SSDs now, it's just fine to turn it off. Does not really bother me. I come home, turn it on, put my shit on the shelf, come back, use it, no waiting time.

[WolfDeville]

My computer is pretty much always on but I always shut it down before bed.

[nicholaswillems]

Sleep during the day, shut down during the night.

[mariohead123]

I shut my computer down each night. I am thinking of leaving it on because my boot times are getting stupidly long. If I can go to the bath room and make a bowl of cereal before my pc turns on thats just sad.Or im really really fast.

I'm not even mad, that's amazing

[BenD]

my pc is still after 2 years fast enough to not give a shit about boot time & my pc just won't be a good girl and go to sleep nicely.... it always comes out of sleep mode so i just end up shutting it down every time anyway

[diode_linux]

I cannot believe the poll results. Modern technology does not consume enough power to care about if it's one PC. I used to mine Bitcoin heavily on my PC, then switch to Milkyway@Home when that became non-profitable.

[terrytek]

Nope. Never. Niddly. Nada. I NEVER shut down my computer. I always put it to sleep on my computer. But, sometimes, it puts itself to hibernate and crashes my wifi adapter. But hibernation is better than shutdown. I wished I can remove shut down from my computer. IT just fricking annoys me when it's just sitting there, when I have hibernate as an option.

[Vicx]

i always use "shutdown -h"

[RisingHermit]

I generally leave my computer on 24/7. I usually just turn off the monitor only, if I'm going to sleep or something. I've been doing that for years without any problems. That said, if I know I'm gonna be away for long time ( more than 16 hours), I usually just turn it off. So on average, it gets turned off maybe twice a month ( not counting updates of course).

[DigitalHermit]

Can't afford to leave the PC on 24/7 and I'm out most of the week so I turn it off...

 

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Hello there...

[Polyvalent]

When you've just recently moved into your own place you can't afford to leave a dual GPU, AMD, heavily overclocked system on at all times. Also, having an AIO cooler, the paranoia of being asleep and that thing springing a leak or failing would give me nightmares.

[RisingHermit]

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Greetings...always glad to meet a fellow hermit.

[DigitalHermit]

Greetings...always glad to meet a fellow hermit.

 

*bows slightly*

[himie]

I used to always sleep my laptop when moving between classes at school and work because it would be much faster to continue working but now that I got an SSD it boots really fast that I just shut it down everytime. This also helps so whenever I boot it up I can choose any OS to boot up from my dual boot system and not have to wait so much time like on my old 5400rpm hdd.

[The_Evenger]

sleep uses next to nothing for power, and is instantly booted, reminds me when i first discovered hibernate in XP...

[TechTheWorld]

I'm not even mad, that's amazing

Haha. Thank you. But how is that amazing?

[mariohead123]

Haha. Thank you. But how is that amazing?

That your computer can take that long to power on

[TechTheWorld]

That your computer can take that long to power on

Isn't it! It's crazy. I am planning on getting an SSD soon.

[evinta]

Usually just put my PC to sleep during the day when I know I will be back onto it soon and then at night before sleep I turn it off. My friend never shuts his down and always has it on sleep so I don't see how it could be a problem.

 

thats pretty much my habit. I used to have a computer i had to restart several times during the day because it kept running out of ram. 

[Owade73]

Would the RAM overheat if the computer is left on sleep for 12 hours?

No... Not unless something were to be modified in any way.

[Tyler Cheng]

THE BILL OMGGGGGGG

[Linux User]

I only have a thick fat laptop as a compromise between a slim laptop and powerful desktop. During weekends it's on the whole day and it's of the whole night, since I keep jumping on and off it. On weekdays, at school it's always off to save it's poor battery unless I'm using it, and it's on until the night once I get home.

[IrkenWarrior]

I primarily put mine in sleep mode and it doesn't seem to be an issue (that said, my computer is dying and it is far less of a hassle to simply leave it on than to get it to start up).