How often do you turn off your PC?

I shutdown when I'm not using the machine for a reasonable amount of time (30 minutes +)

Sleep/hibernation and fast startup disabled - an extra few seconds starting up is a small price to pay for stability. My main rig uses 1W when 'off' according to Home Assistant, idle power usage is around 80-100W.
 
PC is on from when I wake up and off when I go to bed.

its the Plex server as well otherwise it would be off when not in use.

Turn power off at the mains when its off overnight as well.
 
Usually during the night when I go to sleep. Except when the rig is running something that will take many hours to finish, in which case it's left on whilst I'm away from the system so it can complete. Otherwise, when I'm out for an extended period of time as well (more than an hour, which isn't often these days due to unpaid carer duties).

I also prefer shutting systems down and booting in the morning, because if anything happens, I at least know I can check from the boot up stage (as it previously shut down gracefully and so nothing was wrong when it was last on); if anything happened whilst I was asleep, I wouldn't know what happened exactly and might take longer to fix/resolve.
 
I shutdown every time I’m finished playing a game, I don’t tend to switch the psu power switch off at the back though, unless I’m away for a few days ir more.

Is it good practise to turn off the psu switch on back of case after every use?

I only built my pc the other week.
 
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