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I've found sleep very reliable on macOS, and both sleep and hibernate reliable on Windows. I once had my work PC unhibernate and not pop up the login box. The

by tom_ 3y ago

I've found sleep very reliable on macOS, and both sleep and hibernate reliable on Windows. I once had my work PC unhibernate and not pop up the login box. The computer appeared to be running normally otherwise; I just couldn't log in, and I had to tap the power button to shut it down. This stuck in my mind due to its rarity. Can't remember ever having a serious issue on macOS. A couple of my programs sometimes don't survive the sleep/wake cycle, but it's intermittent, and I'm always in the middle of something else when it happens. I've never lost any meaningful work.

andrekandre 3y ago
> Can't remember ever having a serious issue on macOS. macos is fine for the most part, but there are some edge cases, such as some sketchy corporate required "security software" that eats up kernel memory or cpu for some unknown reason, a reboot can fix performance issues there also if you are a dev and apps (like xcode, android studio etc) fill your drive with cache files* or have weird background daemons that eat up cpu, at the least a logout/login (or a reboot) can fix some of those eierd things you could manually delete them without a reboot but ymmv
- tom_ 3y ago
  Indeed, and I've found the same myself - my comment was about the reliability of the OS sleep functionality, and deliberately says nothing about the wisdom of never rebooting! I have actually found both Windows and macOS generally pretty good if you leave them running for weeks at a time, but it's one of those things that's best done only if you really need it (and can accept a non-zero chance of something going wrong). They're not so very good that I'd actually recommend doing it routinely. A reboot every 1 or 2 weeks massively reduces the chance of weird stuff happening.