A reboot of my computer recently caused me several hours of work. Nothing went wrong; the machine and Ubuntu started fine. No, I had to spend the time to save time. I was just trying to make things easier and more efficient, you see.
I rarely restart my home computer. If an occasional software update wants me to do it, I mentally cringe because it will mean several minutes of starting and arranging windows. I always have a collection of terminal, editor, and browser windows open and arranged just so. Things are coordinated between left and right monitor and a double-decker taskbar list. I can quickly move between windows and have everything lined up conveniently side by side and top and bottom, and all is well with the world. But then comes the reboot.
More frequently there is the need to restart Firefox. I like Firefox, but it leaks like a sieve on my machine. Maybe it’s all the plugins that are to blame, but in any case, after …
