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As long as you don't long press the case button there should be no difference.
Execpt your OS is set to sleep on power button press instead of shutdown.
I know, I know. But when I learned how to use a computer at school 20 years ago it wasn't an option or if it was the teachers didn't want to take any risk.
It was actually the opposite: Further back in the day you made sure nothing was running and then you flipped a switch, or just shut the machine off (similar to holding the button nowadays, it was just off, that's it).
Then around Windows 95 and NT a proper shutdown became necessary to avoid data corruption, so the go-to was shut it down first in the software, then you had to shut down the hardware (Windows couldn't actually power off your machine back then).
Windows 98 was the first Windows with ACPI, which allows it to fully shut down your computer. So from then on all you had to do was select shutdown and that's it. I couldn't really find out when a soft power off (by short pressing the button) was first released, but it was probably around that time.
But kids are stupid, if you tell them to press the power button several of them will just hold it till the PC dies. So selecting shutdown has been the best option since Windows 98 and it still is today.
Me and my friend were stupid I can't blame the school