My Windows is more like "I am scheduling the restart. Pray I don't schedule it any sooner."
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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.
Is Linux higher in your boot priority?
Linux is higher in any priority.
Always has been.
When I had a dualboot, that's how I ordered it.
You can configure Grub to boot into whichever entry you last selected. Makes rebooting much more convenient
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I like how you censored systemd
People need to learn that it's ok to say systemd on the Internet and stop self censoring
Let's not get carried away. Fuck and shit are ok, but I draw the line at s*****d
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Yes, let's keep this community family friendly. I could do without such obscenities.
system deez nuts
Windows just randomly installing updates only when I'm working on something with a customer.
one of the reasons I'm moving away. pisses me off so much at work, I don't even want it at home
This is just not true.
- Linux does have a graceful process.
- Windows's process is not graceful
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?
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.
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.
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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.
Linux is so strong I turn it off from the power button. Saving 5 seconds.
Iβm a little spoiled by this. I did it on Windows and had to rebuild the boot partition.
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That random systemd service waiting 1.5 minutes.
You all not suspend/hibernate?
This is so fucking annoying. Whenever you try to run something not clearly meant for the desktop, there is like a 80/20 chance that you can completely forget suspend...
Yeah, I was thinking that. I wish we had a button (other than power off) to stop the service immediately.
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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.
goddamn generation loss-ass meme.
for the most part i don't care, but really, all those fucking terminals i left open, i know they're open, that click per window of yes close has never been helpful
The program 'btop' is currently running in this session. Are you sure you want to close it?
i'll prob just start running pkill konsole before shutdown. was thinking of pkexec /sbin/shutdown -h now on a button, but it is kind of nice having some of my apps recover on reboot.
I just don't shutdown until I get a big backlog of updates. I have to remount my SSD with my games on it every time, then tell steam.
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I used to override that setting.
I...uh...learned some uses for it.
I bet there were interesting uses.
I won't say i've never shut down a long running process, but i've gotten a lot better at not running them adhoc in a terminal :)
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