I don’t remember the last time I rebooted by laptop. Of course it doesn’t run Windows either.
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Its very important in embedded applications. Think of kiosks or other customer facing software. The longer it takes to boot the longer its out of service before the reboot finishes. It is essentially the upper bound of recovery time after an error.
When my desktop took a bunch of minutes to boot I put ff and compilers etc in the auto-launch-at-boot which made it take even longer but started the PC before I got breakfast. Everything up and ready when I got back.
Then I got an SSD.
Now I'm on linux so I rarely switch the PC off at all...
I guess I do. I put the computer (a desktop) into suspend most nights so that it's pretty much up and running as soon as I turn it on the next day.
Even so, rebooting doesn't take that long. 30 seconds tops. Definitely not enough time to visit the bathroom or make a hot drink.
But the advantages to suspend are that it's quick and all my programs are as I left them. A reboot undoes most of that.
Yes, hibernating is also an option to keep open programs, but why do that when it can be quicker?
My only real concern with putting the machine into suspend is if there's a power cut and things end up in a weird state or I lose work because programs weren't closed properly, but then, that could happen at any point when I'm using it too.
It's a nice thing, but not a metric that I'm gonna brag about.
The only times I cared about boot times was:
- When BIOS/UEFI goes by too fast and I can't hit the boot menu key fast enough.
- When I got my current computer back in 2022, I went from booting from HDD, to NVMe SSD over PCI-E 4.
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I care about not having slow boot time, but I don't really care if it's fast.
Well, (potential) customers do care about quite a few completely useless metrics, or ta least meaningless ones. Exactly like they do with their photography gear. Marketing departments need those things to sell new device, right? ;)