[d_hero]

I don't understand the point of leaving it on unless you don't have a remote. It boots in like 6 seconds. Using windows 8.1, you can do regedit tricks to make the sleep function on your remote (and or keyboard) shut down instead.

Because some of us run central servers and leaving the NUC on keeps the hard drives from sleeping.

I do love how ignorant people are and just assume that if it works how they want it to, it should be fine for everyone else.

Also, if you shut it down, it loses your spot in tv seasons and you have to go back and scroll through all the seasons to get to the right one, pretty annoying for shows with lots of seasons/episodes.

Plus, if its off, it doesn't receive the notifications from my download manager and therefore the library is out of date. With NZBDrone, when it sends a notification to XBMC that there is a new TV Show, its automatically added to the library (without having to do a full update), so everyday the system has 5-6 new shows just waiting to be watched. If I shut it down, the notifications don't get received and the library has to be manually updated every time. Granted, not a massive deal but not what I want or need to do when leaving it on is a better solution for me.