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But you can't bring the same argument back to me. Cold booting requires more time and effort. Thus to make that argument, one needs to provide the benefits that compensate for the downsides. Some people provided possible benefits that matter to their specific case, like, PSU makes noise (actually, that was you in a different thread), or they want to save laptop battery, etc. But if we are taking about a modern stationary computer with mains power, there's practically no benefit to shutting it down, only downsides.
Of course it's completely valid for somebody to do it out of habit, but they can't expect to use that as a valid argument for others to do it.
the more time and effort is like, literally a couple of seconds for most pcs, unless it has a hard drive
for now i kind of have to turn my pc off all the time because the roof has a couple of leaks right on top of where my stuff is and it could rain at any time. when i move i'll probably keep turning it off though, as i always turn it on and go and get something to eat, so boot time makes no difference, and i just personally hate it when it turns on from any key press
It's definitely not just a couple of seconds, unless you have a very lightweight OS and only 1 or 2 apps to work with. And no matter how little extra time it takes to cold boot the system, there's still no benefit to doing it that way, so no matter how little that time is, it's still wasted.
As I mentioned, one is free to use their computer however they wish, but it doesn't make it not wasteful to shut it down. If grabbing something to eat was part of my daily routine, I'd grab it beforehand, instead of needlessly going back and forth, wake the computer and use it immediately.