Ask HN: Do you switch off your Laptop? Ever?
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Yes, whenever I'm not using it.
From boot menu to booted is only about 6 seconds (gradually tweaking that to be faster).
>gradually tweaking that to be faster
Do elaborate please!
Gives me a list of stuff and how long it takes them to start. For this machine I don't need most of them, so it's a case of thensystemd-analyze blame
Or systemctl disable SERVICENAMEsystemctl mask SERVICENAME
Never. I have a Macbook air and I only close it without powering it off.
I reboot from windows to linux, but essentially never turn it off unless I have very good reason--traveling, for instance.
I just turn my notebook into sleep.
Every night or while traveling
Maybe around once a month, on a MacBook Air.
Nope
Yes. I only use a laptop when work requires me to travel. The vast majority of its life it spends turned off and locked up in my desk.
Never