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    [–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Windows is doing stuff behind that splash screen too though

    [–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And arch does the exact same thing as Ubuntu :/ not sure what they are trying to say with this one.

    [–] RockyBass 12 points 1 year ago

    Yeah idk, many distros show the classic startup/shutdow process

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It is. Just never says what’s hung.

    Frankly It’s more like

    Windows - “shut down please. No it’s fine, I’ll wait. Indefinately is fine”

    Linux “ shut down please. You have 30 seconds or I’ll shut you down myself”

    [–] bali10050 -4 points 1 year ago

    If my pc doesn't shut down when I click on the shutdown button, I just pull it out of the wall or switch off the psu depending on my mood. At this point I think it's just affraid of me

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You're forgetting the 10 minutes of mandatory Windows updates.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A stop job is running for Simple Desktop Display Manager

    [–] dorumon 2 points 1 year ago

    I think you can configure systemd to force shutdown such things in like 2 seconds which is the only way I can shut down my Thinkpad running Debian 12.

    [–] majlitech 1 points 1 year ago
    [–] flossdaily 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I remember going from MS-DOS to Windows and being really annoyed that I couldn't see the loading log.

    Same with Android phones in the beginning when they were still the scrappy underdog. I wanted to see machinery at work!

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

    I would rather watch console output I don't understand scrolling by too fast to read than some dumb spinning dots >:[

    [–] mvirts 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Wait you guys don't sudo echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger?

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think you'd have to do echo o | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger, otherwise sudo only works for the echo, not the write.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Holy shit the reason for tee never really clicked until I saw this post. I’d used it in pasted commands, but it had always seemed superfluous.

    [–] clumsyninza 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

    It writes to a file like >, and echos it back at the same time; in this case the latter isn't needed (we're just using it to write with sudo), but it's good to know.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    echo c | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger 🫣

    [–] mvirts 6 points 1 year ago

    Ah I guess I just use sudo bash a lot 😅

    [–] mvirts 9 points 1 year ago
    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I don't get it, shutting down looks like the Ubuntu one to me.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    There's a kernel option to disable the text and it's on by default on Arch, but not on Ubuntu.

    Edit: It seems that the kernel parameter is not on by default. I've always used GRUB and the text hasn't appeared for me until I've removed the quiet option in the GRUB config file so I thought it was on by default. It might be on by default with GRUB or I'm remembering wrong.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    I'm not sure that's right. I just installed arch a few days ago, and I see that text during startup and shutdown. I didn't change any kernel options. Also, I've never seen that stuff with ubuntu, just a big ubuntu logo.

    [–] GamingChairModel 5 points 1 year ago

    it's on by default on Arch

    I don't think there is a default in Arch. You have to choose your own bootloader, and the documentation just lays out the options on what kernel parameters to pass. For systemd-boot, the Arch documentation gives example configurations that don't include the "quiet" parameter.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's not on by default.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    I get stuck on a black screen about every 10 or so reboots/shutdowns

    [–] ninsix 1 points 1 year ago

    Correction: first image: Windows update second image: Arch Linux third image: Void Linux