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> I remember when Linux users were practically obsessive about uptime and restarting felt like a sign of failure

I remember it too, like it was yesterday. Wait - it was yesterday.

I see people rebooting Linux boxes to cargo cult trying to fix all kinds of issues and I’m like - rebooting is not a solution. This is not Microsoft Windows.

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and I’m like - rebooting is not a solution. This is not Microsoft Windows.

Reminds me of the old joke:

"Thank you for calling Dell support. Have you tried turning it off and on?"

I mean linux boxes sometimes needed a lot of time to boot before SSDs became available. Today I reboot the system if I don't know the particular name of some systemd service I need to restart. So just restart everything!

To be honest, I would recommend doing that from time to time even on linux boxes. Not because the system becomes unstable, just to check if all your services come up as expected. For the case that you really do need to do a reboot at some point.

So you’re not using full disk encryption? Typing the encryption password is probably slower than systemctl | grep to find what you need to restart.

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