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"His Computers Will All Boot Super Fast"

Booting has disappeared.

Sleep (and hibernate) has made booting and boot times a non-issue.

I would be surprised if people boot phones, laptops and many desktops more frequently than once a month.

Even rebooting for updates probably happens without anyone present.

Anecdata, after a non-techy family member's phone stopped being updated, it had an uptime of over 2 years by the time it was replaced.

If more people had the option of long-term support releases and live kernel patching with computers, I would expect similar results with laptops.