Re:Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap
by mr_toad on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:46PM
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> Laptops on the other hand, those are more problematic
Windows laptops.
My MacBook has been up 56 days 14:06 hours.
Re:Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap
by com2kid on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:18PM
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And my wife's MacBook randomly freaks out when plugged into an external display.
Apple laptops have their fair share of hardware issues. Windows laptops tend to have more due to a shorter product cycle. Apple has longer relationships with their parts vendors and thus they have more time and leverage to force good firmware onto the multitudes of independent chips that make up a modern day computer.
I reboot monthly because getting owned by 0 days sucks, and at this point in life, every platform (except for OpenBSD) is having new exploits found against it at a rather fair rate. Same reason my phone gets rebooted once a month.
Aside from that, I have had uptime on Windows boxes in excess of 6 months.
Laptops on the other hand, those are more problematic, but it isn't Windows' fault if a WiFi card hard locks itself, has a dysfunctional watchdog timer on board, and needs to be power cycled to get it working again.
OSes that can hot swap or live patch kernels can brag about uptimes. The rest of us should stay humble. (And AFAIK no modern consumer based OSes distributions do that)