whatever happens when I click shut off or the power button on my pc

What is power…off?

Like back in the 90s??

I suspend so I don’t have to wait for stuff to load up on boot

Just chiming in to point out that powering off and then starting back up won’t cause any additional SSD wear, reading from flash memory doesn’t use up write cycles* (because there is no writing going on!). In fact, regularly restarting could be slightly more friendly for your SSD, because the /tmp directory, old log files, etc. get deleted on startup, freeing up the storage blocks used by the deleted files so that the SSD can use them for its internal wear balancing.

*technically, flash memory reads do very slightly degrade the data being read, but this effect is absolutely negligible compared to other forms of passive bit rot in flash memory and is basically irrelevant unless you’re intentionally trying to corrupt data using reads (which won’t happen because the flash controller will fix it before it becomes corrupt to the point of being illegible)

I poweroff. I have enough time to let it turn on and can save some energy. (Electricity is getting even more expensive)

y’all been powering down your systems?

had my servers up for like a decade or more…

Nearly always suspend. It just works for me and I’ve never had issues (Arch and Pop). I rarely, rarely have power outages so the end result is the same.

I’m lazy and use systemctl poweroff! 😆

I power off so that my drive encrypts when I’m not using it

I could care less about the 5 cycles from 10.000.000 total cycles (dunno the actual number) at least for my desktop.
As for my proxmox server: 5% wearout

I use the hybrid: suspend to ram, then after 2 hours, automatically suspend to disk - in the final state it uses zero power. And, if you have encrypted your drive (you DO encrypt your drives, right?!) then you need to enter passphrase on resume from hibernate, so safer if device was nicked.

I definitely shut down my systems from time to time just to make sure my network is configured correctly and shit doesn’t go haywire because I’d rather have that happen than the power go out and everything comes crashing down

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

Power off because usually when I turn my laptop off, I’m going to be keeping it off for a long enough period of time that suspend would just not be worth the battery drain.

Suspend. The amount of power required to keep RAM alive is negligent.