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    [–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 151 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    My Windows is more like "I am scheduling the restart. Pray I don't schedule it any sooner."

    [–] saltesc@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Mine will do the restart and boot into Linux.

    Windows Updates are always like that. Halfway through it's got to restart, bootloader picks Linux, Windows doesn't get to finish the other half of its update til the next time it's chosen.

    [–] notthebees@reddthat.com 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Is Linux higher in your boot priority?

    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Linux is higher in any priority.

    [–] timik_pipik@lemy.lol 9 points 1 week ago

    Always has been.

    [–] hansolo@lemmy.today 18 points 1 week ago

    When I had a dualboot, that's how I ordered it.

    [–] p_consti@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

    You can configure Grub to boot into whichever entry you last selected. Makes rebooting much more convenient

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    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 97 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I like how you censored systemd

    [–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    People need to learn that it's ok to say systemd on the Internet and stop self censoring

    [–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Let's not get carried away. Fuck and shit are ok, but I draw the line at s*****d

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

    ~~init.d~~ straight to jail

    [–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Yes, let's keep this community family friendly. I could do without such obscenities.

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    [–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 93 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    This is just not true.

    1. Linux does have a graceful process.
    2. Windows's process is not graceful
    [–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 62 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Yeah and in linux when you say "kill this process" that process fucking dies. No 10 minutes of windows trying to negotiating with a crashed program to close. No I'm not angry about this happening to me at work today, why do you ask?

    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 19 points 1 week ago

    Both Windows and Linux have ways to gracefully ask a program to close and to force close it. Not being able to select the correct one on either system is a skill issue.

    [–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    I am not sure how Windows handles processes, but on Linux you have different signals. SIGKILL (9) generally kills the process immediately, but there are other signals like SIGTERM (the default signal, 1) which asks process to gracefully quit, and many others.

    If you want to know more, check the signal(7) man page or this Wikipedia page.

    [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    And when chrome freezes rest of the desktop goes gray and everyrhing else freezes too including the task manager.

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    [–] RazTheCat@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Windows just randomly installing updates only when I'm working on something with a customer.

    [–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

    one of the reasons I'm moving away. pisses me off so much at work, I don't even want it at home

    [–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Managed to wreck my NVMe drive with an unsafe shutdown on linux the other week, gave it a few hours for the self check, booted back into the distro and has been running fine ever since.

    Pretty sure windows would've just set the computer on fire at this point.

    [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Linux is so strong I turn it off from the power button. Saving 5 seconds.

    [–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

    I’m a little spoiled by this. I did it on Windows and had to rebuild the boot partition.

    [–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    That's weak. I always pull on the power cord until the plug comes out. That shuts it down in a second flat.

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    [–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    That random systemd service waiting 1.5 minutes.

    You all not suspend/hibernate?

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    [–] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 16 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    I do yes | sudo pacman -Syu && sudo poweroff

    (Update and poweroff)

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Fuck that noise sudo shutdown 0 turn off NOW bitch!

    [–] seralth@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

    I prefer shutdown now gives me a feeling of power

    [–] ragas@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    "&&" will only run shutdown if the update runs correctly.

    I do ";" to definitely run the shutdown after the update process exits. (Don't want to keep the system running if nothing is happening any more.)

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    [–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    You don't need sudo to run poweroff on Arch, provided there's no other users logged into the system

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    [–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    It's a screenshot of a screenshot in a video? What's that shield?

    [–] rem26_art@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    ya'll aint just pulling out the power plug?

    [–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

    I flip the breaker whenever it's time to shut down.

    [–] iopq@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I flip the breakers so I can keep the power plug connected

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    On my work PC I disabled automatic restarts and I'll just hibernate it for weeks at a time, keeping my work stuff open. Convenient, and I can install updates when I choose to.

    [–] Atlas48@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 week ago

    goddamn generation loss-ass meme.

    [–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Y'all don't delete WSUS, block all of the M$ IPs at both your HOSTS file and your router, and stop all update processes?

    Do you even know how Windows works?

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    [–] callyral@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    me turning off the power supply: (i didn't have anything open so hopefully it's fine...)

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