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On 2022-11-14, Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Shutting down your desktop applications and rebooting with a new |
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> kernel takes no longer than a couple of minutes. |
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On my systems it typically takes about 15-20 seconds. |
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I try to reboot at least once a month when I have some spare time -- |
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just to make sure I can. |
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What I don't want to happen is that some mishandled upgrade has broken |
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my system so that it won't boot properly, but I don't know about until |
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months later when I'm in the middle of something urgent and the power |
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glitches. Then I spend several hours I don't have trying to figure out |
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what's wrong. [Been there, done that, it's _not_ fun.] |
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If you wait years between reboots, and it doesn't go well when you do |
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have to reboot, there are usually a lot of possible causes. |
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The same applies to X11: I like to restart it every week or so just to |
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make sure nothing's been broken by recent upgrades. |
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It's a _lot_ easier to find/fix a problem when the upgrade that caused |
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it is recent (and there's only the one problem). |
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If you wait long enough, you end up with multiple problems that |
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sometimes aggravate each other. |
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Grant |
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