3d ago

Linux For Life

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Linux does give every application time to shut down correctly, but unlike windows, it won't wait for ages until every process is down. Linux WILL shut down in a certain timeframe, whereas windows waits for years if necessary. In my old job, we all had to use windows and I had times where I clicked shut down, turned off my monitor, grabbed my stuff, left and in the next morning, the PC was still on because Notepad refused to just close lmao.
- That is what infuriates me so much. Instead of just killing the process after 5 mins of waiting it just cancels the shutdown. Like fuck off with that shit.
  
  Depending on the use case, that can be a good thing or a bad thing
  
  Shouldn’t be the default though.
  
  Ha, you want choice in how your OS functions?
  Here, have another bing toolbar for your settings app.
  
  Man I hope next time I press windows and type an application by name, or by executable.exe I get a spinning icon then a stack of unrelated web results that are probably malware.
  
  I don't want my IDE with hours of work to just shut down forcibly.
  
  Then you might not want windows cause Windows forces updates on you whether you want them or not and break things. Linux will happily wait for you to forget for so long it breaks because the target API doesn't accept your old ass code anymore. At least in Linux as long as I don't forget I'm good. I sometimes forget
  
  TBF there are ways to completely disable updates in Windows (I just did in my VM because it should literally only run 3 programs which are not working with wine)
  
  then surely you would not have asked your OS to shutdown? linux does what you ask
- I should probably sigterm instead of sigkill, but it sounds far less cool

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