Should you turn your computer off every night?

#41

I’m not arguing against that, I’m arguing about the analogy of comparing a computer to a lightbulb and implying they are similar or can even be correlated

and if you want to get technical on it, it’s well known that hot components fail earlier than properly cooled ones, I’m willing to bet that a motherboard say left running 24/7 will take more damage due to hot components than a motherboard will that only takes damage once a day from booting up plus the 4-8 hours it will be on for most people

being pedantic about a figure of speech, a new low for you

I gave an example of fedora (since 12 I believe) booting in 10 seconds from stock you fucking tard

#42

I’m not arguing against that, I’m arguing about the analogy of comparing a computer to a lightbulb and implying they are similar or can even be correlated

and if you want to get technical on it, it’s well known that hot components fail earlier than properly cooled ones, I’m willing to bet that a motherboard say left running 24/7 will take more damage due to hot components than a motherboard will that only takes damage once a day from booting up plus the 4-8 hours it will be on for most people[/quote]

Therein lays our problem, we are both discussing different situations. I was writing about computers which get turned off and on often, ie 5+ times a day.

#43

[quote=“runescape3dude, post:42, topic:437704”][quote author=Niall link=topic=540406.msg4009391#msg4009391 date=1339008965]

I’m not arguing against that, I’m arguing about the analogy of comparing a computer to a lightbulb and implying they are similar or can even be correlated

and if you want to get technical on it, it’s well known that hot components fail earlier than properly cooled ones, I’m willing to bet that a motherboard say left running 24/7 will take more damage due to hot components than a motherboard will that only takes damage once a day from booting up plus the 4-8 hours it will be on for most people
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Therein lays our problem, we are both discussing different situations. I was writing about computers which get turned off and on often, ie 5+ times a day.[/quote]

which still isn’t much of a problem depending on what context you look at it from

schools from instance buy the cheapest lowest spec gear they can in most cases and this stuff has cheap manufacturing, if you’re going to blame failure rates for school computers on something them blame it on the poor manufacturing

#44

The school was bitching about how those computers cost them $1500 each when new. But I do agree, the admin at school is a fuckwit.

#45

I’ll guarantee they got a decent discount on those computers unless it’s a private school

#46

sorry to disappoint, but my arch install took about 30 minutes to wget all the updated packages, format the system and configure it and it takes < 5s to boot from bios splash with my ssd. both times are < than windows for install and boot.

#47

if your using Ubuntu or another desktop that is based more for beginner linux users then it should configure itself… If per say you are using a minimalist distro like Arch, then that’s the reason you get fucked over by the configuring…

#48

[quote=“Jmood, post:47, topic:437704”][quote author=eczema3 link=topic=540406.msg4009388#msg4009388 date=1339008601]
Why can’t linux configure itself? If windows can boot, from a stock installation, that quickly why can’t linux? Yeah because I really want to spend ages configuring my computer when I could just you know, install windows and use it straight away…
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if your using Ubuntu or another desktop that is based more for beginner linux users then it should configure itself… If per say you are using a minimalist distro like Arch, then that’s the reason you get fucked over by the configuring…[/quote]
with the exception of certain X settings, there’s not really any configuration to be done…