PC Hibernation

[Dan B]

For your workflow, maybe. Others differ. My primary PC usually has connections open to six different machines, a text editor with fifty or so files in it, 20 tabs in a web browser, all kinds of other state which will be lost if I shut it down. (Right now it doesn't, as it crashed the other day after I tried changing the power saving settings :-( ). Resuming all of that lot at the start of a working day is tedious and I'd much rather that it could go to sleep and wake up where I left off

 

[Carwash]

For your workflow, maybe. Others differ. My primary PC usually has connections open to six different machines, a text editor with fifty or so files in it, 20 tabs in a web browser, all kinds of other state which will be lost if I shut it down. (Right now it doesn't, as it crashed the other day after I tried changing the power saving settings :-( ). Resuming all of that lot at the start of a working day is tedious and I'd much rather that it could go to sleep and wake up where I left off

Linux: Rebooting is for when you add new hardware.

 

[andyoxon]

When we had XP, hibernation made a big difference to the start up to web browse time. We've now upgraded the laptop to Windows 7 (and 100->500Gb faster HDD) start-up from shutdown is faster anyway, but I do still use hibernation a fairly often.

One thing to bear in mind IMO is that if you always hibernate - the windows system and some application updates don't get applied, so shutting down regularly is necessary and probably better for general stability.