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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 24 points 1 month ago (14 children)
  1. When I hit the power button, it turns off. It still does its shutdown and all, but it's not an extended negotiation where I find a bunch of programs that are refusing to "let me" do what I want the computer to do, and have to try to make each of them happy. It just turns off.
[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What negotiation? I have a hard time to follow what you mean. Which operating system does turn off when shutting down? If it does not, then either its configured to do so (or not to) or there is an issue that needs to be handled and resolved. You don't want your PC turn off immediately, so it can do stuff that is needed (such as wait for all drives to write the data) or remove temporary files and unmount drives and so on. Otherwise an instant turn off is equivalent to a crash (including all background services and running applications, losing data, corrupting drives...).

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure both windows and macos allow programs to interrupt shutdown, usually if there's any unsaved documents open. I quite like that feature actually, if it's used correctly anyway.

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