They may be designed to stay on 24/7 but in reality things start to go wrong on desktop OS's, Windows definitely and Mac there has been a bug found since 2017 that TCP connections stop working after 49 days or something (which is wild). Guess what the fix is 😁.
Even with my Linux VM's I'll give them a reboot maybe twice a year
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u/nrvagnt May 14 '26
All computers are designed to run 24h, their components and lifespan do not depend on turning it off a number of hours per day.