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		justinclift on Dec 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rest in Peace, Optane > Rebooting is often the first thing we do to fix stuff. Depends on the environment. That used to be the common approach for windows, less so for *nix systems.

eternityforest on Dec 6, 2023 [–]

Linux is pretty good now about not having the whole system lock up, but restarting programs still seems to be the #1 troubleshooting action.

justinclift on Dec 6, 2023 | [–]

Yeah. There's a large difference with restarting an individual application and the whole system though. Sometimes several minutes difference. ;)

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