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Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 day ago by DundasStation@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Every night, I put my computer to sleep. But should I be shutting it down every now and then? For example, maybe once a week or once a month?

Just curious to see this question answered from a Linux gamers' perspective.

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[–] poinck@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I use hibernate (suspend-to-disk). This way I can save power and have all the apps open when I login after resume from disk. Full reboot happen after important security or major updates.

My swap volume is 150% the size of my RAM so that there is never a situation where I cannot do this. The only program I close before systemctl hibernate is my browser. That saves sone wear on the SSD.

Hibernate works surprisingly well on Linux. Even with LUKS encryption you can make it work.

[–] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I close before systemctl hibernate is my browser. That saves sone wear on the SSD.

I haven't heard of this, curious to know what you're referring to?

[–] a14r@lemmy.org 1 points 19 hours ago

Browsers use a lot of ram. Upon hibernation, the contents of ram are written to disk. So the less ram you have in use, the less needs to be written to disk, saving on disk wear.