This is an oft talked about topic. It basically boils down to your post processing. Shooting in RAW will always require a conversion to .jpg, .tiff, etc. while shooting in JPG doesn't.
Here's a couple of threads on the topic although there are more.
RAW question
RAW or JPEG
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