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Linux actually also has a graceful shutdown process. It tells apps its shutting down by sending SIGTERM, and its up to each process to flush data asap, do whatever they gotta do, and then shut down.
If they don't listen then linux will indeed pull out the ~~baseball bat~~ ~~chainsaw~~ katana and make processes die whether they want to or not.
But for some reason Firefox doesn't do this properly, so it offers to or just outright restores all my pages on startup. I've never been able to make it stop doing that.
Have you tried this:
I'm pretty sure I have, but I'll try again to be sure
The number of times I have had the Windows shutdown process tell me “please close <some windows process that I never opened> before shutting down” is fucking annoying. Wipe your own ass, Windows.
The funniest one is when it tells you this but by the time you get back to close the ones that didn't close they've already closed on their own. Confused Travolta.gif
Bonus points if that exact dialogue is the cause. Had that happen more than once. No idea how
Meanwhile Windows regularly gets hung up for several minutes on the "shutting down..." screen for no fucking reason. Only happens when I'm in a hurry too.
i love it when the "this program is keeping the computer from shutting down" program is the shutting down program
In theory it is a good thing because it's usually programs with unsaved stuff.
Then randomly reboots anyway even though you said don’t install updates and reboot.