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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

This is blatantly false, 99% of Gnu/Linux distros actually have systemd nicely asking the processes to terminate themselves, it just doesn't take longer than ~10 seconds usually.

This meme would imply a sigkill.

Edit: the distros that don't use systemd likely don't do any such thing either, I just don't know about them.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Except on the Linux systems I've used, when I ask it to shut down, it shuts down no matter what. Windows and macOS let programs stop the shutdown process indefinitely (when shutdown/reboot are invoked the usual way).

I think that's what the meme is trying to get at.

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish that was the case, I'll often find my Linux desktop running because the os failed to shut something down.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

poweroff and reboot work as advertised for me, but I'm running headless homelab servers and a laptop with i3. Maybe DEs/GUI shutdown is more subtle?

[–] droans@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

I've had containers which are locked up and won't respond to SIGKILL or any other signal. I don't think It should be possible with a regular process, though.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That would depend on the DE I suppose, on GNOME it'll show open programmes and wait 60 seconds for the user to intervene IIRC.

Still doesn't kill them though and asks them to properly terminate themselves which allows them to take care of everything.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I run i3 and headless servers, so it's poweroff or reboot for me. Always works as advertised.

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