I was mostly talking about stationary computers, but even in case of a laptop (unless it runs Windows which has terrible sleep management) the benefits of starting your work immediately once you open the lid outweighs the cons of losing a couple percent of battery overnight.
two apps? where do you work that you only have two apps open? just on my home pc right now I have 21 programs open, of course that includes things that autostartup, but those things take time to startup. stuff like dropbox can take several minutes until it stops thrashing your cpu. On my work computer I have even more. Just in basic programs to do my job that’s at minimum 8 programs. That doesn’t include auto startup apps, or other apps I use. That’s just basics required by my job. Several of them are IDEs which take several minutes to start, and then when they do start you have to open up the project, indexing happens. All told, the computer can start in 20 seconds, but getting to a working desktop state is about 10 minutes.
This thread was about having to power off “even if there is only one app”, and that’s why i responded as that.
By work i didn’t mean a job. It could be anything, but mostly i need firefox and LaTeX ide, which is just a text editor and pdf viewer(starts in 5 seconds including the time required to navigate and open the file i am editing manually). I also do open many programs but only on demand, but never needed “always” for a working desktop state.
For your case i agree you should put in sleep mode, but the thread was just not about that
Firstly, I normally have way more than two apps open. And secondly, in case of a few apps, I personally still value the couple minutes of my time more than I do 2% of my battery. But to each their own.
I was mostly talking about stationary computers, but even in case of a laptop (unless it runs Windows which has terrible sleep management) the benefits of starting your work immediately once you open the lid outweighs the cons of losing a couple percent of battery overnight.
Why would you loose that couple percent of battery if boot time is fast and only have two apps for the work
two apps? where do you work that you only have two apps open? just on my home pc right now I have 21 programs open, of course that includes things that autostartup, but those things take time to startup. stuff like dropbox can take several minutes until it stops thrashing your cpu. On my work computer I have even more. Just in basic programs to do my job that’s at minimum 8 programs. That doesn’t include auto startup apps, or other apps I use. That’s just basics required by my job. Several of them are IDEs which take several minutes to start, and then when they do start you have to open up the project, indexing happens. All told, the computer can start in 20 seconds, but getting to a working desktop state is about 10 minutes.
This thread was about having to power off “even if there is only one app”, and that’s why i responded as that.
By work i didn’t mean a job. It could be anything, but mostly i need firefox and LaTeX ide, which is just a text editor and pdf viewer(starts in 5 seconds including the time required to navigate and open the file i am editing manually). I also do open many programs but only on demand, but never needed “always” for a working desktop state.
For your case i agree you should put in sleep mode, but the thread was just not about that
Firstly, I normally have way more than two apps open. And secondly, in case of a few apps, I personally still value the couple minutes of my time more than I do 2% of my battery. But to each their own.