> because everyone running Windows reboots it regularly because of its notorious instability issues I reboot monthly because getting owned by 0 days sucks, and

> because everyone running Windows reboots it regularly because of its notorious instability issues I reboot monthly because getting owned by 0 days sucks, and at this point in life, every platform (except for OpenBSD) is having new exploits found against it at a rather fair rate. Same reason my phone gets rebooted once a month. Aside from that, I have had uptime on Windows boxes in excess of 6 months. Laptops on the other hand, those are more problematic, but it isn't Windows' fault if a WiFi card hard locks itself, has a dysfunctional watchdog timer on board, and needs to be power cycled to get it working again. OSes that can hot swap or live patch kernels can brag about uptimes. The rest of us should stay humble. (And AFAIK no modern consumer based OSes distributions do that)