Every day when I go to bed

My gaming box is only booted and powered on when I use it, my server is up 24/7.

yep, its how it updates to the latest container image.

I see no point in keeping my power hungry monster awake 24/7. I'm in any game less than 3 minutes after a cold boot.

I only do system upgrades every so often, normally based off hearing some new feature in a program I want. When I do, that usually includes a kernel update and it asks me to restart.

I shutdown my computer whenever I’m done using it.

i usually restart pretty often bc I like to keep it updated

I shutdown my Desktop daily, sometimes more if for example I'm playing in the morning and going out for lunch and coming back in the evening and playing again. In short if I'm going to spend over an hour not using it I'll power it off, no reason to keep it on and honestly it powers on almost as fast as coming back from hibernation so why bother? That made sense before SSDs, but nowadays I don't see much reason.

There's one big exception, and that is sleeping in the middle of a game, to be able to be back in the game in seconds. It's one of my favorite features of the Steam Deck, but I haven't tried it on my desktop because I usually use it for other stuff too so it's not as useful there.

No, never. Unless I have to leave for an extended period of time or I know there's going to be a planned power outage.

I'm also a adept of Sleep, I only shutdown when I know I'll be out of home for a extended period of time or when it randomly hangs 🫠

You should shut down every now and then. At least on the evening you run an update, as a kernel update might've been installed.

I get a bug with putting mine to sleep - becomes unresponsive and have to manual shutdown. So I've disabled sleep. With modern ssds, there is very little downtime on startup. 30-60s or so. No reason not to just shut down and save power.

Currently runs all the time but it also runs Frigate NVR. I also access my desktop with a laptop I use as a thin client.

When I finally have Frigate setup on it's own hardware I will be shutting my desktop down when not in use.

I always shut down my PC. No need to keep it wasting electricity (even a little) when I'm away and I can wait a bit for it to boot again

My server is the only thing that's on 24/7. My and my partner's PCs shut down while we're not using them. It takes like 10 seconds, maybe, to boot up.

If I'm not actively using my PC for anything it is shut down and turned off from the wall socket. 3 monitors and a pc on the same extension, even when they're not switched on still draw power. I'm in the UK though and electricity isn't cheap.

It takes all of maybe 5-10 seconds from power on to desktop, I've barely gotten comfortable in my chair before it's ready for my login, I can't see any reason whatsoever to leave my PC powered on, ever.

I find sleep is still a bit quirky on Linux. Every once an a while it’ll get stuck in sleep mode and I can’t bring it back to life - forcing a hard reset via pulling the power.

So I just shut it down. I wouldn’t have an issue just always shutting down, but ddr5 memory training is annoying and I wish it didn’t behave so slow on startup.

No. It's never shut down. I suspend it when I'm not using it but never shut down.

I used to keep everything running and only turn off the screens but I changed my habit and there was a minor monthly electricity bill decrease that was worth it.

My computer loads up in 5 sec or less. And power bills are too much to be running all the time. Even sleep with devices plugged in takes power.

I shut it down when I am not suing it. Every time.

Whenever you do major updates you should reboot. Most patches can be live applied, but not all.

Usually your package manager will mention if there's a need to reboot when it's done. Once a week to once a month is fine for the most part. Kinda depends on the updates that are coming out and how often you do them.

I always turn off my pc, it takes maybe as much time to boot as it does for me to walk from the power button to the sofa (it's a living room setup and those 2 things are a metre apart)

Not shut down, restart.

But with such fast boot times, I just turn it off when I'm not using it.

I shut down after every use on my Linux gaming PC. My Linux servers (I currently have 3) stay on for weeks on end without being rebooted, but I try to reboot at least once a month, but I forget most months.

I shut down because, in my opinion, I want my SSDs to last longer and them not being on when not in use is my way of ensuring that. I don’t game every day, but I do usually every other day, so for them to be on for 24 hours without me using them is potentially wasting time health-wise, in my opinion. Admittedly I haven’t done the research to see how reboots affect health of an SSD, because it may be counter productive in that light if a reboot causes just as much if not more stress than just leaving it on.

But SSD health is not the only reason. My other reason is that my PC is somewhat beefy and draws a lot of power and I’m charged a shit ton in electricity costs as it is and this thing can potentially cost me a few dollars each month of being on without being in use, especially during peak hours when my rates get outrageously expensive, at double the normal rate.

And then performance is the last remaining reason. But that might be Windows PTSD where I’m just used to Windows being a butt when it hasn’t been rebooted in some time. I just feel I get the best performance when I give my PC a break when I’m not using it.

My brother uses Windows and leaves his PC on all the time and just puts it to sleep and he doesn’t seem to have issues requiring him to reboot. He games every day whereas I’m not always using my gaming PC.

I come from the HDD era. This means booting an OS from an SSD feels like instant to me. I shut down my PC when I was using Windows, I shut it down using Linux. Also I shut it down when I am not using it. And it really doesn't matter if I played games or not, I don't really understand the connection between these two things.

I power off if i wont be use

Of course I shut down my PC when I'm not using it, what kind of question is that?

Yes like once a week reboot

I unplug the PC when I'm done. There are regular thunderstorms during this season.

So power surges happen from time to time. To prevent my PC from frying I completely cut the power source after I'm done and away from home. And since I'm using an old ass dell monitor (really should start looking for an modern one) I don't have to keep the monitor connected to power for pixel cleaning.

I'm no expert, but using Linux as well, I do reboot mostly since A: my pc wakes up randomly when put to hibernation (haven't fixed it yet). B: I'm using SSDs so a cold boot takes no time at all.

What kind of hibernating are you referring to? Since if its on RAM I can imagine possible data loss when the power is cut.

I pretty much only ever shut down if I need to open the case for some reason, or if the battery dies.

There is occasionally an update where things don't work right without rebooting, but shutting down is pretty much completely unnecessary unless you're concerned about power consumption.

Rebooting is a good idea from time to time to ensure any new updates have taken fully and that old system drivers haven't lasted and continued to run.

For example, one time I installed an XOrg update but didn't reboot because my distro's updater didn't recommend it. And so I was very confused when I actually did reboot and graphics were borked. It took me a while to track down that the update - which I'd forgotten about - hadn't been compatible with my graphics driver and I'd been using the previous working version until then.

It's supposedly possible to restart / reload all software without rebooting, but it's a royal pain in the [proverbial] when it's deep in the system, and it's far easier to just reboot.

And if you're gonna reboot anyway, you could time that nicely for before you'd be about to stop using the computer for a while. Let it reboot first to make sure everything seems OK with any updates that might have been applied. When that works, you're at a fresh slate with no programs open, so you can then turn it off.

(And if it hasn't worked, you can roll back with something like Timeshift or whatever your distro provides, check that works and save the investigation for when you have time.)

I took a keyed industrial switch home from work that I have the power cord ran thru which also has a CT wrapped around it hooked up to a little ammeter screen and it gives accurate power draw info (volts, watts, amps)

It's cool but I have to turn the switch to put power on my PC which every time I do I see something flash on the motherboard and it posts three times before booting and does this weird power cycle thing so I hope I'm not fucking up the caps or something LOL.

I've been meaning to re-wire it so the PC stays connected to the wall and I just use the switch on the case to turn on and off. Then keep the CT and ammeter connected and those turn on only when I turn the switch because I don't want that screen on when I'm tryin to sleep.

I also have a little light controller in the box with the switch, ammeter, and 120v light that's like this old school bay accessory from 2006-ish that's supposed to hook up to lights in your PC case but I took some multiconductor cord and terminal blocks home from work and strung them around under my desk.

I realize all this is like an unhinged setup lol. I also have a remote start button in my living room so I can turn the PC on when I'm chillin in there and interact with it via a KVM.

I can't even get sleep to work on my computer for whatever reason.

I'm with the once-a-weekers

My PC is either on (when I am actively sitting in front of it working) or off (all other times). With a cool down, of course, for coffee breaks or a quick lunch.

For my gaming PC, I shut it down whenever I'm not actively using it.

My laptop is usually just put to sleep, and only fully powered off if I don't plan to use it for a bit, or if I'm installing updates.

My servers stay on 24/7.

I put my desktop and laptop to sleep when I'm not home when I'm sleeping.

Probably something funky on my end but my CachyOS machine struggles to wake up from sleep mode. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it takes 5+ minutes on a black screen, sometimes it just never comes on. Regardless, I use an elgato stream deck (I like my funny buttons + dials and it powers my XLR mic), and it flat out doesn't turn back on after sleep.

This thing is up and running in like a minute tops from a cold boot anyway so I usually just run an update and full shut down every night.

I mostly shut down my machine and sleep it less often. I feel being off will use a bit less energy even if sleep is almost the same and is a bit more secure even though the sleeping machine should have the network adapter shutdown. I doubt it makes that much of a difference but it used to in the past and im a creature of habit. I can't say why I sleep it honestly I just do sometimes.