subignition

Fair enough. I was speaking towards the perspective of op. We were encouraged, not required, so there were definitely some folks who would do that.

That sounds like poor IT policies to me. In previous office jobs I’ve had, our computers were configured with our working hours and we wouldn’t shut them down at the end of the day, so that any updates could happen off the clock and minimize that sort of disruption.

There’s also WSL though your mileage may vary.

I would ask whether you realize you’re on a linux community, but you referred to a man page as a wiki article so you are clearly lost.

The first paragraph past the link is a summary of the function of the program.

fstrim is used on a mounted filesystem to discard (or “trim”) blocks which are not in use by the filesystem. This is useful for solid-state drives (SSDs) and thinly-provisioned storage.

the problem with that is primarily to do with irresponsible human stewardship. Food production is already sufficient to end world hunger, we are just (collectively) unwilling to put in the effort to do so as yet. Almost a fifth of global food production goes to waste.