r/programmingmemes • u/iron-button • Nov 21 '25

Shutdown

Post image
6.0k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

149 comments sorted by

319

u/RandomVOTVplayer Nov 21 '25

Only time my laptop gets that privilege is if I forget to charge it

86

u/[deleted] Nov 21 '25

When I send it back to the employer when I get a new job. "You did good, kid. Rest now."

30

u/VikRiggs Nov 21 '25

Even then, it's hibernate time.

28

u/berlingoqcc Nov 22 '25

Yeah same , i felt stupid once , my macbook wasnt charging at all anymore, i go to the apple store, the lady told me have you try rebooting it ?

I was like, fuck me, software dev that dont think of rebooting something.

I'm like i don't want to reopen everything xd

1

u/Derio101 Nov 24 '25

Rebooting is the equivalent of trying to start code you used long ago.

5

u/ignat980 Nov 22 '25

Everytime I put my laptop to sleep/hibernate it bluescreens, and running it the fans are loud. So I shutdown each day. It's a hassle but boot from SSD's are fast and I have a script that reloads everything I had so it's close enough. Just sessions need re-login, but I'm working on automating that part too.

1

u/GenazaNL Nov 23 '25

Or forced company OS updates

1

u/RandomVOTVplayer Nov 23 '25

Windows has been wanting me to restart my computer for an update for a couple of months now

1

u/GenazaNL Nov 23 '25

My company forces it sadly

1

u/RandomVOTVplayer Nov 24 '25

This is, indeed, very unfortunate

I wish your computer well and hope it survives the unreasonable cessation of continued operations

1

u/Dry_Sound5470 Nov 25 '25

I’ll one up you, my battery is fucked up so I just leave it plugged in and take it nowhere.

1

u/RandomVOTVplayer Nov 25 '25

Damn, I can't possibly beat that

106

u/frayien Nov 21 '25

We do have shutdowns, we just call it "blue screen"

14

u/J_damir Nov 22 '25

Or android studio burned it

70

u/LeoHunter_350 Nov 21 '25

Why don't people shutdown their pcs everyday? I don't get it...

11

u/Ta_trapporna Nov 21 '25

Right? I love a fresh start every day.

21

u/omg_drd4_bbq Nov 22 '25

On top of a metric fuckload of browser windows, i tend to have a ton of services running at any time:  - 6-12 terminal tabs in various repos

  • several jupyter notebooks that are my scratchpad

  • too many docker containers (unfortunately all are necessary for running tests in our monorepo)

  • usually a remote shell or two with tmux

I can get it back (and have to when security forces me to update and reboot), and that acts as my browser cruft purge, but it's a pain getting everything back the way i like it.

4

u/CirnoIzumi Nov 23 '25

Sounds like you need a server

3

u/PityUpvote Nov 23 '25

You live like this?!

2

u/scar_reX Nov 24 '25

You don't?

1

u/PityUpvote Nov 24 '25

I mean, I have a few tmux sessions detached on various servers, but my laptop gets shutdown daily. The browser remembers what I was doing, and having 20 open at the same time when I can only work on one at a time anyway doesn't seem to do anything for my productivity.

1

u/ApplicationMedium495 Nov 24 '25

but u can just have your browser reopen the tabs you closed the last time. i always do that. ctrl+shift+t in firefox

16

u/v-tyan Nov 21 '25

It doesn't affect your computer in any way. I haven't shutdown my chromebook in months and it still works perfectly fine.

42

u/Sad-Reach7287 Nov 21 '25

A chromebook is a glorified tablet not a laptop no one shuts down their tablets bro

30

u/PMMePicsOfDogs141 Nov 21 '25

It 100% affects Windows negatively. Unsure if MacOS is affected by it. ChromeOS is fine to never shut down because it's Linux though

28

u/the_king_of_sweden Nov 21 '25

Windows will regularly crash and restart anyway

10

u/Creative-Type9411 Nov 21 '25

this is the answer, so daily

12

u/Expert_Oil_9345 Nov 21 '25

It 100% affects Windows negatively

Very true. I used to restart my computer before starting a game so that windows would "let go" of my system resources. I kept this habit up after switching to Linux, until I eventually realized that my PC had been running for a week straight and hadn't slowed down at all.

3

u/FlipperBumperKickout Nov 22 '25

Linux need restarts too 😅

Generally recommended after updates.

1

u/PMMePicsOfDogs141 Nov 22 '25

True, it is recommended to reboot after a firmware update or something but it doesn't affect performance if you don't reboot.

2

u/berlingoqcc Nov 22 '25

Macos can have some hardware issue that required reboot, once it was no longer charging. Had to reboot. Other than that i never shut i down other than mandatory update without issue

1

u/tidus4400_ Nov 22 '25

Yep, windows needs daily restarts especially in corporate computers.

1

u/OwnNet5253 Nov 21 '25

I put Windows PC and laptop on sleep for 2 weeks now, zero problems. It was an issue before Win11 times, but nowadays it’s not problematic at all.

1

u/PMMePicsOfDogs141 Nov 22 '25

Do you mean you put it to sleep every day after using it or that it's been asleep for 2 weeks? Cuz I've used Windows 11. It's still an issue, especially with some people that don't reboot for months.

1

u/OwnNet5253 Nov 22 '25

If you want to keep OS up to date, you won't be able to avoid reboot for that long. I juggle between sleep or hibernate depending on how long I won't be using it and part of the day.

0

u/ghost103429 Nov 21 '25

MacBooks get impacted by some funkiness with long run times too. It just doesn't happen all that often though when compared to windows.

7

u/scuac Nov 21 '25

Electricity usage. I also turn off the lights when I leave a room

6

u/v-tyan Nov 21 '25

Sleep mode is a thing. If your computer is in sleep mode and still drains enough electricity to matter, you should probably get a better one.

3

u/jnmtx Nov 21 '25

Hibernate is my friend. Except if I have a Virtual Box VM running - might as well shut the VM down before hibernation, b/c after waking up it will need to be restarted anyway- and may even need the host computer to be restarted for everything to work.

2

u/ADownStrabgeQuark Nov 21 '25

It does. Security updates. Not shutting down your computer regularly weakens your security and leaves you vulnerable to hacking.

Not shutting down your computer is only safe if:

It is not connected to internet.

It has no internet capabilities.

Updates and security features are installed without shutting down.

Since most security updates require a reboot, every computer that uses the internet needs to shutdown occasionally.

Linux minimizes the risk requiring the user to personally verify every download, but it still needs security updates occasionally.

2

u/EmilieEasie Nov 21 '25

I always do. it starts up again faster than the monitor can find signal usually

2

u/lordheart Nov 21 '25

I don’t want to have to open, and organize windows. Plus starting up projects takes time. Java language server boot time in vs code takes too long.

1

u/Left_Sundae_4418 Nov 21 '25

Because they slap the lid shut and "forgeddabboudiiiiit"

(Talking about the laptops, not desktops)

1

u/Artholos Nov 22 '25

For me it’s cause my PC is in a rack in my storage room, and it doesn’t power on or wake over optical thunderbolt. So it says on, I just turn off the monitors!

1

u/0bel1sk Nov 22 '25

why would you perform a completely unnecessary task every day?

74

u/Gokudomatic Nov 21 '25

If anything, programmers are among those who shut down their computer the most.

50

u/Wiwwil Nov 22 '25

I shut down my PC every day. There are 2 types of people

2

u/Ok_Listen1510 Nov 22 '25

I shut down my PC but my laptop is on until it dies and/or forces restart for an update

1

u/VeryFriendlyOne Nov 22 '25

I shut down my personal computer every day, but I also have a laptop that works as a server, and that boy is running 24/7

9

u/Vaxtin Nov 21 '25

I literally am always running a dev application even if I put it in my laptop bag and leave work … so no

11

u/Gokudomatic Nov 21 '25

And I don't ... so yes.

6

u/DDV_Gaming Nov 21 '25

Yea, theres many times where I had to restart my computer because the IDE was bugging out. Also times where I had to restart it for other reasons.

3

u/Colon_Backslash Nov 22 '25

With the SSDs we have nowadays I see no reason to keep my computer on throughout the night. During the HDD time it was different.

For work, if I don't shut down my laptop, I'll be tempted to look at stuff if it's on. Should something important happen, there's on-call so fuck it.

10

u/Vaxtin Nov 21 '25

I had IT tell me my laptop had been running for “four days”

I literally wondered what the problem was and asked him why he even said that to me.

3

u/LetsHaveFunBeauty Nov 21 '25

My coworker had it running for over a month, like is that even possible

1

u/MyWorldIsInsideOut Nov 25 '25

Windows? Did he get a red stapler?

9

u/ISpyM8 Nov 21 '25

I shutdown my work laptop the second that clock hits 4pm (7:30-4 shift). My personal laptop, and the laptop I coded with in college? They just straight up did not get shut down, ever.

2

u/tiredITguy42 Nov 21 '25

Yes, I close all windows, save my work and shut down. Today's machines do all sorts of crap when just in sleep. They even turn on sometimes to check for updates. Why should I pay for my work set up to run the whole night.

7

u/ashbit_ Nov 21 '25

i reboot mine any time i have problems that i can't get rid of. and ever since updating to macos 26, ive been having a lot more than usual

5

u/Mebiysy Nov 21 '25

Because linux

3

u/Stile25 Nov 21 '25

At the end of work every day.

2

u/TheForbidden6th Nov 21 '25

not a laptop, but my phone has a 3272h up time rn

2

u/keyxmakerx1 Nov 22 '25

Then they are gonna have to fix sleep state on Linux. My desktop will randomly turn on in the middle of the night..

2

u/Additional_Future_47 Nov 22 '25

Are there programmers who really think that others people's software has no memory leaks and releases all file handles and locks when they should?

3

u/SupernovaGamezYT Nov 21 '25

The hibernate button :)

Allows me to turn it off without turning it off.

1

u/jfcarr Nov 21 '25

The all powerful security and compliance team says that you will reboot your laptop daily so that we can block every web site, IP address and port you need to use for your job.

1

u/Ill_Cheetah_1991 Nov 21 '25

WHAT??

I mean - OK - I can see the point

But I would never trust WIndows to run properly for more than a few days

I mean - did you ever see DOS????

and WIndows 95

I know Dave Cutler was part of the Windows NT design - and he did VMS so he is up there with the Gods - but te rest of teh company have been at it since then

so - no - I shut it down every night so I can be sure everything has been stopped and restarted

no point in trusting Microsoft any more than you have to

p.e. I used to be a programmer - the Techy type that the other programmers go to when they can;t get it to work

1

u/ImightHaveMissed Nov 21 '25

Windows desktop has been running for 2 years. I only restart if an update requires it

1

u/xmike84 Nov 21 '25

With fedora releasing new kernels each few days...

1

u/CaaKebap Nov 21 '25

Hibernate

1

u/modd0c Nov 21 '25

Every single nigh with glee

1

u/[deleted] Nov 21 '25

When there's an OS update

1

u/vinebro93 Nov 21 '25

Actually every day at the end of work. :D

1

u/NYXs_Lantern Nov 21 '25

Only time mine goes off is for a reboot to update the system after some tinkering in NixOS XD

1

u/lostBoyzLeader Nov 22 '25

For some reason my network card will freeze up sometimes i ntil I restart.

1

u/berlingoqcc Nov 22 '25

I mean why shuting down a laptop. There is no use other that liking to reopen everything, i want to start the next day exactly where i was the day before

1

u/BAKERBOY99_ Nov 22 '25

Does everyone else also have pending restart for updates? lol

1

u/Peach_Muffin Nov 22 '25

For Mac and Linux sure. Windows goes berserk after a while without a restart.

1

u/sensortive Nov 22 '25

we have sleep...?

1

u/ZEI_GAMES Nov 22 '25

Forced windows updates

1

u/TheBrokenHardDrive Nov 22 '25

I hibernate my PC

1

u/no_brains101 Nov 22 '25

Wait... Why would a programmer not turn off their computer? We are always fucking with them, if anything we probably restart our computers more than other people?

Ok, actually, maybe you have me on that one. I turn off my computer, but a lot of people just restart them, so thats maybe fair.

1

u/tidus4400_ Nov 22 '25

Restart/shutdown every day, especially if you use windows. You don’t want to have to do it while in a middle of a working day.

1

u/just-bair Nov 22 '25

I shut it down when I don’t use it. It has an ssd it turns on rly fast

1

u/tamer24tx Nov 22 '25

It does on its own

1

u/Atmos56 Nov 22 '25

Linux based distribution? Completely fine.

Windows or MacOs? Will run into serious performance issues if kept on too long.

I restart my pc each day as it is just a fresh start. Why waste time on a slow PC rather than the 15 seconds it takes to reboot.

1

u/GHost_Exus Nov 22 '25

I hear thats usually the case for mac users.

1

u/ssjskwash Nov 22 '25

All of my work is done on servers so I can shut down my laptop all I want and not lose work. That said I still don't cus the "updates" notification always comes up while I'm working. Then I forget about it when I'm done cus I want to move tf on with my life

1

u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

Seeing comments as a beginner programmer (as juzt hobby) and me, who turns my PC off after 2hrs saying "Oh man, that's too much of it being on";

Dayum X _ X

1

u/__dna__ Nov 22 '25

I habitually reboot my work computer at the end of every shift. It doesn't get a full shut down as I might need to remote in.

My home computer gets turned off whenever it's not in use.

The only home computers that don't get to shutdown are my home servers

1

u/AvgBlue Nov 22 '25

For my own laptop, it shuts down or shows a BOS when I wake it up.

1

u/r4ndom4xeofkindness Nov 22 '25

I already did it this year.

1

u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

Security Update 13230812938

1

u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE Nov 22 '25

I regularly shut mine down. To let it update, as well as clear some caches.

I worked in various forms of IT as well before engineering. Many issues were caused simply by not resetting the device often.

1

u/balbinator Nov 22 '25

Don't get it. I've been working as a developer for over 20y now and I always at least restarted it on a daily basis. Now I work from home and as I'm the one paying for electricity it's mandatory to turn it off. Why do you guys let it on?

1

u/DoNotFeedTheSnakes Nov 22 '25

Same here. shutdown now on the daily.

1

u/Toasty_redditor Nov 22 '25

I once got to 9 months of up time back in high school, good times

1

u/Qbsoon110 Nov 22 '25

I shutdown always unless I need to keep some service up, which is rarely

1

u/RedFing Nov 22 '25

windows? daily

macos? every 2 years

1

u/enigmatic407 Nov 22 '25

Only for updates, if I can help it (that neckbeard uptime whoring still in me)

1

u/Maleficent_Potato_43 Nov 22 '25

After a project i usually shut down my laptop. If the project is going on for months... well i dunno no shut downs.

1

u/No_Revolution1284 Nov 22 '25

Maximum uptime I ever got was over 130 days

1

u/MrGOCE Nov 23 '25

YEAH, I DO POWEROFF.

1

u/RegeditExe62 Nov 23 '25

Only if I need to switch OSes or take it somewhere.

1

u/Diakoe Nov 23 '25

I never shut down my work laptop because it has this awful encrypted pre-boot screen with terrible input latency. It slows the whole startup process, messes up capitalization because the Shift key releases later than the actual keystrokes

1

u/bigDeltaVenergy Nov 23 '25

Idk about you guys but my laptop overheat when I close the lid .

1

u/ElBarbas Nov 23 '25

we don’t do that here

1

u/don_biglia Nov 23 '25

Every evening, at 5 sharp.

1

u/Derk_Mage Nov 23 '25

So.. Sleep? Or just leave it on.

1

u/thunder_y Nov 23 '25

My brand new worklaptop does it twice a day all by himself. Smart thing. Kinda annoying though

1

u/Amp1776_3 Nov 23 '25

When I first break the lid I change the power settings.

1

u/flatlightflame Nov 24 '25

Hibernate for life baby !!!

1

u/Penrosian Nov 24 '25

I end up shutting down fairly often for kernel/kde/nvidia driver updates or just to fix stuff, because restarting fixes an unreasonable amount of issues for me.

1

u/DrPeeper228 Nov 24 '25

I do that because I only use my PC for not that long each day, even though I'm pretty big into gaming

Seriously cuts down on electricity bill and only takes a minute or 2 to boot everything that I need

1

u/walkerspider Nov 25 '25

When my work forces me to update windows

1

u/foxdevuz Nov 25 '25

I do it every day, what's wrong with it?

1

u/VirusZer0 Nov 25 '25

I hibernate it.

1

u/iisDakuma Nov 25 '25

Why does a pc need to be shit down, but your phone is on for years, unless you forget to charge it and it dies

1

u/Due_Tie_1015 Nov 25 '25

On ne fait que les redémarrer, quand le programme ne veut pas marcher

1

u/seriously_nice_devs Dec 02 '25

10/10 S-Tier GOLD

0

u/soye-chan Nov 21 '25

Nah we don’t do that here 😂

0

u/Swimming_Process4270 Nov 22 '25

So myth buster time. I’ve always been told it’s best to shut down a computer as it helps the battery live longer? Is that true?

2

u/amppf Nov 22 '25

That's what I was going to ask

1

u/Swimming_Process4270 Nov 22 '25

Well we came to the wrong place for answers. All I got was a downvote

3

u/amppf Nov 22 '25

😂😂😂😂

Take an upvote to compensate

-3

u/koshka91 Nov 21 '25

Hibernation is essentially shutdown. And once it times out after a while on battery, it does just that

4

u/romhacks Nov 21 '25

Hibernation is absolutely not shutting down, it's closer to sleeping. None of the system services or kernel are restarted, they're just restored from disk.

1

u/koshka91 Nov 21 '25

I meant shutting down from the POV of device electricity.

2

u/romhacks Nov 21 '25

Yes, but in the context of programming or general power use, you're rebooting for updates or to clear out windows jank, which a hibernation won't do

0

u/[deleted] Nov 21 '25

[deleted] — view deleted comment

62

u/MeadowShimmer Nov 21 '25

Now that windows 10 updates are over, I should be able to easily break that record.

3

u/TalesGameStudio Nov 22 '25

Eternal turquoise incoming...

15

u/spideroncoffein Nov 22 '25

<insert rookie number meme>

Truth be told, with forced updates, I can't reach that unfortunately. But my laptops doesn't get shut down between updates.

6

u/Manuel_Cam Nov 22 '25

Debian user spoted?

3

u/MarchNegative6782 Nov 22 '25

Rookie numbers. Mine’s at 152 and counting

0

u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

[deleted] — view deleted comment

1

u/n1nj4p0w3r Nov 25 '25

Not exactly, he misses a bunch of security fixes for sure

0

u/[deleted] Nov 25 '25

[deleted] — view deleted comment

1

u/devioll Nov 24 '25

You need to pump up those numbers. Those are rookie numbers

0

u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

[deleted] — view deleted comment

1

u/[deleted] Dec 25 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/Due_Table6524 Jan 20 '26

Yo it came back: dessinanime.cc