The Aurora page says, “Don’t overthink it, just shut your computer off when you’re not using it.”
But…
I don’t shut my laptop down very often. Most of the time, it goes into sleep mode. I only reboot when necessary.
How often do you reboot your computer? When you see updates staged for installation, do you review the changes and then wait if they aren’t security-critical or immediately needed?
I’m just curious how others handle this.
Don’t overthink it… Why reading updates changes if you can just reboot? Reboot, go to toilet and continue with work. If somethig by rare chance go wrong, select previous image from Grub menu.
New image updates are ones per week, so reboot or power off on Sunday and you are good to go for majority of cases.
What I do? I just power off my laptop every evening. Why waste eletricity power if noone is using it for whole night.
In my case, my laptop goes in my bag asleep. Plus I have lots of browser tabs open. A bunch of code editors. Why reboot unless needed.
Once a week seems sane though (rebooting).
If you are on the stable stream, we release new stable on saturday night/sunday morning (depending on your timezone). So weekly boot is enough.
Thanks! Thats good to know.
Not sure what browser you are using, but most have a setting to “continue where I left off” so you don’t lose your open tabs.
But do I need to remind you that every tab is a separate process with its own copy of memory, etc. Not a good idea to work that way - but I have worked with more than a couple others who were comfortable with that approach.
From the Brave browser that I use:
Try that setting and see if it alleviates the friction to rebooting you experience.
Thanks, I do recover my browser history tabs on reboot (but manually). I think the once a week reboot is probably sane though. I was just concerned I’d be rebooting all the time 
The whole point is don’t overthink. On phone new system updates are once per month. Aurora has onece per week. Just reboot/shutdown Sunday at evening. You forget, do it next Sunday. You forget… don’t overthink. Just reboot when you feel it is right.
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I reboot every few days when I can schedule time. Or, when my upd-indicator shows that bluefin os has updates. Then I run ujust updateand reboot.
The ujust update command is nice - because flatpaks and brew packages need updates as well …
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