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I just keep my laptop on for weeks on end, until the kernel updates or something else that needs a restart, last 6 months I prob only turned it off 7 times.
And no, I don't really feel any effects cause it's linux which doesm't get clogged up like windows and power usage just idling is the same as just suspending.
Also personally don't use stuff like suspend or hibernate ever. Even have them completely disabled on my systems.
Note: I'm on nixos not ubuntu tho.
Maybe there's not a huge difference, but the power usage of suspending is definitely lower, since only the RAM is getting power. CPU and disks have some idle power consumption, and you can have some background processes that wouldn't be executed while suspended.
This assumes you have a machine which supports proper S3 sleep, which newer devices increasingly do not :(
A lot of modern laptops only support S0 "modern standby", which basically means the kernel puts all processes including itself on pause, but the CPU and all other components are still powered despite being idle.
Depends on what you run on your system, but when my system idles my cpu is at literal 0%, ram at 600mb and disk usage is 0% (nvme), which ends up my total power usage to about 3W on idle or something like.
It's a laptop so doesn't use a lot.