• @[email protected]
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      You must have some malware at a very deep level of your system to have something like that happen.

      • Redex
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        I mean that’s just regular windows shenanigans. It often says it’s waiting on some apps forever, and when you click cancel it tells you it’s actually updating and that’s why it’s not shutting down.

        • @[email protected]
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          just click “shut down anyway” and it shuts down.

          Also, if you use O&Oshutup10++ you can disable all the bullshit in windows and then it’s awesome.

      • @[email protected]
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        shutdown && exit

        KDE: Broadcast message from user@hostname on pts/1 (Date and Time): The system will shutdown in 60 seconds.

        • @[email protected]
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          Artix-dinit for me and still waiting for Alpine to switch to s6 for server.

          Btw, why is it that there are lots of rolling release but no stable release distros with Dinit/S6/Runit? There’s Devuan but they do their own weird mix of Runit and SysV. Not like they are brand new, all except Dinit have 10 years+.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 month ago

      At work I use windows, at home I use Linux. They both have their annoyances. Linux more because of availability of apps natively running. And windows more because windows is painful to use as a power user.

      • @[email protected]
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        I also use Linux at home and am forced to use Windows at work. I disagree with Linux being more annoying, I’ve fully embraced the mindset that open source/Linux supported software is the only software that exists and I haven’t had any issues since I switched years ago.

        Of course if you really really need some specific software for some niche that doesn’t have a perfect open source equivalent that’s a harder pill to swallow for some.

        I’m much happier on Linux, my windows work PC is nothing but a pain to use.

        • @[email protected]
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          I’m still a relative noob with Linux and I find stuff “breaks” more on Linux (‘breaks’ as in does something I don’t want it to), nursing and it can take me a while to fix those things because I’m still learning. It takes a while in part because I want to actually understand what’s going wrong (and how to fix it), rather than just doing the thing.

          With Windows, when it’s doing something I don’t want it to, it’s usually a much more straightforward troubleshooting process because often, it’s a problem I can’t solve. The stuff I can change is quicker because I have more experience with Windows, but overall, the experience is much more frustrating because of all the stuff I need to tolerate. It makes it feel like my computer isn’t my own.

          • @[email protected]
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            Fair, definitely a learning curve and I can definitely sympathize with trying to fix things in Linux, I have had my fair share of why is that doing that, I just find that more tolerable than windows lol.

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          Yes of course! And we always have Wine. I had a situation yesterday where I needed to remove some triangles (millions needed to be removed) from an STL file and there is a native app for window. On wine Linux it runs super slow. But…I don’t have a windows machine right now. So I had to buckle up for slow rendering of my triangles lol

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        Windows is harder to use as a casual user

        The only thing it really gets right are forced updates but the updates it gives aren’t great

        • @[email protected]
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          Yeah, I feel like Linux is easier for casual and better for power users, Windows favors people in the middle.

          • @[email protected]
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            I use Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

            At work, windows cause I have to. I hate it.

            To tinker with CLI and coding, Linux. I SSH into it from work to check my email with Mutt and browse the web with Lynx.

            My computer that I just want to operate and do what it’s supposed to? Mac. Thing runs like a Toyota - non-stop and when you need it.

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    i wonder what kinds of terrible and awful things are being done in the implementation of explorer.exe. i cant think of any filebrowsing task so performance heavy that it would interrupt a shutdown or cause any kind of noticeable delay when opening a new window.

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        The desktop, task bar, start menu, Alt-Tab switcher, and a bunch of other stuff are in Explorer.exe. It’s the second app that starts when you log in, after userinit.exe.

  • Hello_there
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    If you just say yes and reboot it’ll open back up all your open emails and drafts. I do the same for word.
    Excel does not do that. Boo.

    • @[email protected]
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      I hate that. Why would I want it to open 2 blank emails that only have my signatue in it? Just put it in drafts, I will empty those out in 6 months time. Same for word. I don’t need to look at the guide from yesterday I didn’t even edit I want a blank document please.

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        Nah. It’s super good. When your comp resets unexpectedly due to updates, all of the docs you were working on open back up. Extra important when a reset happens friday and you come in on monday. Even if the doc you were working on is located on an external drive that you’re not currently connected to.

        For anyone that says to follow what IT tells me and to shut down all programs and the comp at end of day: no. That’s what sleep is for.

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    That’s one thing Microsoft can’t do: give us a check box that says “always do this” on some of the shut down hangs. My audio drive does it here and there…not enough of an issue to go mess with it. Still, my computer will patiently wait for me to click the damn button.

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      There is some kind of solution involving legacy windows tools straight from windows 7 or older. I had that issue with an early version of Nvidia Broadcast and I found a way to always kill the process when I want to shut down the computer. I remember it being an actual feature, albeit buried in the aforementioned legacy menus.

  • @[email protected]
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    161 month ago

    “shut down anyway”…assuming you’ve saved your work in whatever apps that needs to happen in.

    • @admin
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      Why is it that long when shutdown -p -f works great?