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[–] 28 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Sadly, Windows can never leave well enough alone. The current biggest confusion is that they changed restart vs shutdown. There are currently TONS of people who think they're restarting their computer regularly and saving themselves a lot of pain, but Windows decided to change the definition of shutdown.

Did you restart your computer?

Yes.

Did you use start-> restart?

No, I used start -> shutdown, then powered back on!

Sorry, that doesn't help; it saves the current running state, so when you use it later, it doesn't need to reload everything. For what's currently wrong, we really want to make sure we don't just have some memory corruption. Please perform start -> restart.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    I had a Mac user in my office last month, I asked her to reboot her MBP, she used the power button to crash it. I'm like, is that the way you always do that? Sure, she says. I showed her the reboot option and she was like "oh neat bye." That poor fucking Mac.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    When I figured that out, I was so pissed. I didn't tell you to hibernate! If I wanted you to hibernate, is have told you to do that. I said shutdown damnit.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    https://www.pdq.com/blog/restart-vs-shutdown/

    When they introduced fast startup in windows 8 :( You can disable fast startup, which eliminates the problem. Honestly, though, it's better to use the real restart at the first sign of questionable stuff.

    Considering many don't properly restart, Windows 10 / 11 are remarkably stable compared to Windows 7, and when updates force you to restart, it does it the proper way.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's fucked I've been thinking I'm a good boy shutting down my computer whenever I don't need to use it to ensure that I don't get any slow down. Why on earth would you name it "shut down" at that point?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    One of win 8's targets was to decrese boot times. Bios was slow, so Win 8.1 was designed to take advantage of UEFI. While they were there, they decided to 'cache' the kernel to make it super fast.

    But it was just the kernel. All your apps still had to load again from scratch. They should have called it hybrid sleep visibly in the UI. But the change was confusing, so they just hit it.

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