I don't care about boot times but I do care about keeping state. In addition to the obvious browser I typically have an IDE, a few terminal windows, email, a f

I don't care about boot times but I do care about keeping state. In addition to the obvious browser I typically have an IDE, a few terminal windows, email, a few communication clients (due to internal and customer choices, not mine), and usually one or two database clients open at most times. Some of those restore their state nicely while others don't. Some of the terminal windows have e.g. a particular set of terminals at certain directories because I need to keep track of and work on multiple source repos at the same time. Starting all of those from scratch every day would indeed be a chore. Perhaps more importantly, having my desktop be the way I left it also automatically reminds me what I was doing and helps continue from where I was. A fresh desktop every morning would be a misfeature for me and would annoy and frustrate me immensely if forced on me. I do of course reboot now and then for system updates etc., and I don't mind that. There might be a decent rationale for forcing a reboot or disabling sleep on non-tech office devices if the staff are technically unskilled, but this is HN, so it's not much of a surprise if people aren't keen.