A stop job is running
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Reminds me of one of the truest comics I ever read.

It is weird isn't it.
Why do they make it so bad?
I imagine half of linux users could make better automated update rules in their cron.
So many better ways.
So why are they making it intentionally bad?
... Sabotage from Microsoft employees who hate Microsoft?
... Part of a larger Embrace Extent Extinguish tactic, where they've already embraced the Linux Foundation etc enough, they're ready to extinguish Windows, already having sufficient monopolistic total-control hooks in Linux???
What are they up to? There has to be a reason it's so bad. There has to be a reason they go out of their way to make it so bad.
It surely can't just be the effects of The Corporation, the hierarchies and compartmentalisations and bureaucracy of the structure where they don't understand (or even perhaps do understand [and maybe have seen Kevlin Henney's excellent talk on clean code vs enterprise programming] but) can't do anything about it, can it?
What are they building in there? We don't get to see, we don't get to know, just trust them, they know best when and how, and so you are not allowed to change it.
We are not doing that any more.
[**ββββ] A stop job is running for Session c1 of User gdm (49s / 1min 30s)
`[**ββββ] A stop job is running for Session c1 of User gdm (4min 19s / 1min 30s)`
Windows cannot shut down because there is a folder open.
I've never used systemd to shut down
Sudo shutdown -h now works on the Mac
In most distros shutdown is a symlink to systemctl.
Just poweroff is fine. Why lose extra 2.5 seconds typing two words when one word will suffice?
What?
sync ; sync ; sync ; shutdown -h now
Or nothing!
It's even worse, when I tell my work Windows 11 computer to shut down and I have to choose update and shutdown because it decided to do updates, sometimes it reboots a few times but then it doesn't turn off afterwards.
I'm never going to install Windows 11 on any of my devices, it's so bad.
I bought a new mini PC the other day that shipped with windows 11. Before installing Linux I thought "I'll just boot into windows to make sure the hardware is all correct".
I got as far as the windows welcome screen and thought "it's actually just going to be faster and easier to install Debian instead of going through all this windows bullshit"
I got a new Mini a month ago. Before I even powered it up, I stabbed a USB stick into it, hit escape on boot, and killed that bitch with Kinonite.
There are two things a person needs to do when starting up a fresh new computer: First, you must bathe in the purifying waters of Lake Minnetonka, and never, ever let Windows have even a single chance to live.
Or my old windows 10 machine would wake itself up in the middle of the night to run updates that the group policy wouldn't even allow it to download without my permission and then just sit there. If I hadn't fallen asleep yet, I'd notice the monitor light up the next room and get up swearing at Microsoft until I tracked down where the wakeup timer was set and disabled it. Only to find it re-enabled after some updates.
Fuck Microsoft.
It's fun when your laptop decides to do this kind of nonsense from inside your laptop bag, smothering itself in its own heat.
Five seconds? What's hogging that system? Mine is about two, at most, from the WM shutdown selection.
systemctl invariably hangs on waitimg for some job to finish. systemd-shutdown-inhibitor is hideous.
poweroff -ff
Everyone arguing about the amount of keypresses to type a shutdown command and time it takes to shutdown... I just power it off at the wall. One button press, shutdown is near instantaneous
Are you guys really using a command to shut down a computer?
Because you can do the same with Windows, but nobody uses it because it is just not convenient to use commands for that.
shutdown /s
You can just type "shutdown now" and it does.
Powers on
Immediately starts shut down
Refuses to close because the following programs are still running
The list is empty
Not to be that guy but...
shutdown /s /f /t 0
it's now safe to turn off your computer
Apparently there are a lot of ways to shutdown. halt is my preference from the command line.
I like shutdown now because it feels like I'm reprimanding my PC

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