Hibernate vs. Shutdown on Y2P

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What's the benefit of shutting down vs. hibernate? I like hibernate bc it resumes fast and all my work/browser tabs are in place. Why even shutdown at all (unless when installing/uninstalling things etc)? Why not just keep using hibernate intead of shutdown?
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That should be a totally fine way of working.
I've been around long enough that I've had so may problens with various suspend and resume mechanisms over the years that I am just way more comforatble always shutting down completely. The Y2P powers up and boots to a usable state in ten seconds, less time than some past systems would take to come out of sleep, so to me it feels like it's pretty much instantaneous.
Shutting down means I'm forced to make sure that all my work is appropriately saved, and ensures that there's no cruft left over from a sleep/wake or hibernate/wake process that could be less than perfect (saving and restoring all system state is about the most demending thing you can ask of a machine in terms of complexity).
Most people these days love sleep for its instant suspend and resume wile keeping all their apps running, and if that sort of thing works for you that's great, but me I'll stick to the good old tried and true shutdown
No worries about the machine spontaneously waking up, batteries running out while sleeping and losing my work, etc.
Z.