Reply to post: Re: I will put up with the occasional reboot

It's a pain in the ASCII, so what can be done to make patching easier?

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Re: I will put up with the occasional reboot

"Not rebooting for more than 4 months on your home PC isn't lazy, it's obstinate."

A reboot is the occasion you get to test that startup scripts and related gubbins are working correctly. You have more chance of sorting out problems if you are not changing a whole load of stuff at once.

To those who are proud of long uptimes, especially on servers, consider this:

Your uptime represents the amount of time since you last tested your startup.

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