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"The Everything Manual" page 256 (sopuli.xyz)
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Always remember Your time is more valueble Any machine that refuses to shutdown after a press of the power button is considered malicious and may be killed by disconnecting the power, regardles of how sentient it is.
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[–] 39 points 1 year ago (10 children)

This is so IRL. It was the last drop in the bucket when using systemd, when it started to let me wait out a countdown every time I shut it down. I would just flip the power supply switch. Then I switched from Arch to Artix.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I was pretty sure systemd doesn't have to be configured like that. Anyway, on my company managed Linux systemd tries to access some network service on startup and shutdown. Unless I'm plugged into on site LAN, I get to wait a full network timeout (presumably with retries) every time.

    At least it's not Windows.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    probably just because it's doing the correct thing and waiting for the applications in your session to close?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In principle, but it did never hurt anything when I just straight up cut the power so I got the feeling that I was waiting for nothing. It wasn't like the disk wasn't flushed yet or anything. Maybe it is good to be extra careful when restarting a server or something similar, but for desktop usage I prefer if the init system just kills everything after a few seconds so I can go with my day. Neither is right or wrong just whatever you prefer. I like a cutthroat style in general and I accept the minor risks that come with it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    It's not a good practice to allow immediate shutdown on a PC, as long as the OS doesn't do checks for finished data transfers. You will lose data if SSD is not finished writing it. Yes, even with super fast SSD there might be stuff that takes seconds to complete.

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