3 mo. ago • 98%

I know that pain

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Or when you click update and shutdown and the computer just restarts.

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- Top 5 annoyance, happens all the time with my work machine so I have to baby sit the update before I can shut down for real and leave.
  
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I wait for bios then hit the power button

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- It's the computer equivalent of stopping the microwave when it's done but hasn't yet beeped.
  
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Even worse if you're on a potato.

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I forgot it since Linux solved that problem like a decade ago

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- Yeah, it would be such an easy fix for windows too but they "forgot" how to ui a decade ago.
  
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- I haven't used Linux since 2015... What was the solution?
  
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It's hard to type systemctl reboot instead of systemctl poweroff.

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- I've typed reboot out of habit more than once
  
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- shutdown -r now VS shutdown now
  
  The -r muscle memory is real.
  
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  I do shutdown -h now
  
  Never realized I could omit the halt parameter.
  
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- Came here to write this exact comment 😁
  
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Oh, way worst is "shutdown" instead of "sign out" in Production Windows server.

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- If your production server can be shut down via GUI button, the admin was lazy.
  
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  Or without a confirmation, or without a confirmation that requires typing something first.
  
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30 seconds on my 15 years old machine with linux

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There is a power cord

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- also you can hit the power button when it's posting. that'll just turn it off.
  
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For those who use windows with english language.

CTRL+X, U, U.

Invoke quick menu, select power entry, select shutdown.

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Lol… back in the day, it was accidentally hitting the physical reset button with your shoe… and that wreaked havoc on your UNIX system…

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Not too bad now days with SSDs and fast boot, but back in the day that may have been a 15+ minute mistake. Getting into windows took several minutes and you would still have several minutes of nearly unresponsivness as background processes booted, including your anti-virus. Usually you clicked the power button and waked away for a bit. And the trick to speeding up your pc was to dig into the startup folder and delete as many programs as possible so they wouldn't start at boot, because for some reason everything wanted to.

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Back in the days of Windows XP and mechanical hard drives

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me spamming ctrl+alt+del, hoping it'll stop it

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Restart, not really a problem...update and restart, oof.

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F11 on my computer let's me select which boot device to boot from, and I just turn off the computer there.

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I can’t remember when I last shut my computer down. I definitely did back in the 90s. But now it’s just sleep, sleep, sleep!

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as someone who uses a pc, I just plug out the power if such thing happens

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