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.

  • Xylight‮@lemdro.id
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    27 days ago

    Hibernation is underrated. If you don’t want to risk losing stuff you have open but want 0 energy draw, hibernation is great. As a bonus, you can store your swap file in an encrypted partition to prevent attacks possible with normal sleep mode.

    I have my sleep option set to automatically switch to hibernation if it’s been asleep for 3 hours.