No. Never let them see your next move.

I rip the plug out of the wall without warning. Gotta keep your machines on their toes or they’ll get too comfortable and start plotting against you.

Power off because I don’t know when I’ll be back. If I know I’m back in a few minutes or an hour? That shit stays on.

I just turn off the screens, and I have a usb switch to switch off my keyboard and mouse (a cheap usb flip switch + a small usb hub).

Reboots when needed.

I power it off to save electricity

Power off unless I’ll be using it again soon.

Pop!_OS, suspend. Rebooting causes Steam to forget about my second drive and I need to reselect it. I don’t need to do that if I use suspend.

I’m lazy and use systemctl poweroff! 😆

Power off to get the full security benefits of disk encryption.

Suspend, most of the time. I have a two handed Vulcan nerve pinch keybind that does that for the end of the day. A desktop PC doesn’t have a lid, but that keybind is about as cathartic as closing a laptop.

This is actually different from how I have the desktop environment set to do it, which is the hybrid suspend/hibernate option. This gives me at least a couple of options without too much messing around. Quick shutdown: Use keyboard; Hybrid: Use GUI (which can be done by keyboard navigation too if absolutely necessary.)

The reason? There’s a surprising amount of state, such as open windows, browsers, etc. that need to be set back up if coming back cold from a full power off and that bothers me more than maybe it should.

By rights, I should use the hybrid option all the time as it’s technically safer, but it takes longer to power off and it actually suspends then unsuspends for a few seconds as it sets up the hibernation profile, which gives me the willies.

Also, the power grid is pretty stable here. If I was elsewhere I might be using the hybrid a lot more.

I suspend it, until I get around to set up hybernation. I don’t care about startup time. I care about all the windows being there exactly as I left them, without exception.

I’m using suspend on my desktop running Manjaro KDE. To reduce power usage it goes to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity and wakes up on mouse or keyboard input. Aside from some flaky kernel versions and after underclocking an unstable EXPO profile it’s pretty stable, even games continue to run after wakeup.

For my full desktop, I turn it off when I’m not using it. It basically exists to do heavy compute tasks. I basically do that a few times a week. There’s no reason to leave it on if I’m not in the middle of a job. That would be true regardless of the O.S. I’m using on it.

My main computer, I suspend. Usually, I try to make sure that happens on purpose because Ubuntu has this impossible to troubleshoot behavior¹ that seems to happen more often if it falls asleep on its own.

I would be more inclined to shut it down but I’m particular about my windows and it takes what feels like an hour to get everything just so after reboot. I can’t deal with that every day. (Nor am I thrilled about how often Ubuntu LTS wants me to reboot for updates. My desktop needs Ubuntu Studio LTS but my main computer doesn’t. When I get time and energy, I’m switching it to Mint so I can deal with someone else’s obnoxious choices for a change without learning an entirely new distro.)

¹ The behavior is not recovering video on wake. It does seem to be working but following the commands I have memorized to shut it down from inside a virtual terminal don’t work. The only way to get it down is to hold the power button for “4 seconds” or pull the power plug.

Server: Not once I have used anything else than reboot.

Desktop: Whatever happens when I close the lid.

Power off.

I use Mint btw