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 @AzulCrescent The initial password screen should put the system to sleep if there is no interaction for a few minutes. @AzulCrescent once it turns back on, just immediately hold down the power button.
 @AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt The humiliation hurts more than spending time waiting for the pc to boot. @AzulCrescent Not your fault. That's bad design. Which window manager do you use? I thought they all had a "Shutting down in 10 seconds [cancel] [shutdown now]" popup. @AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt happens more often than I'd like to admit  @kirtai @AzulCrescent It doesn't really take that long to reboot on those when using a system that isn't ridiculously bloated (read: Windows).
One thing to know that's helpful: If you're using Grub as your bootloader, you can just press "c" to enter a command and run "halt" to poweroff immediately, instead of waiting for the full reboot & system load sequence to complete.  @AzulCrescent what's even more frustrating for me on my one windows machine: "update and restart" instead of "update and shutdown."  @AzulCrescent That's why I like KDE, it has a countdown thing with a cancel button by default. @AzulCrescent everyone remembers when they first learned that "Update and shutdown" is bugged in Windows and found out while snuggled in bed that it just restarted instead of turning off @AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt for those who wants a confirmation prompt of sorts, you can enable what's called "Event Shutdown Tracker", it's normally for Windows Server but you can have it in Windows 10/11 too. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/78343-enable-disable-shutdown-event-tracker-windows-10-a.html @AzulCrescent and then windows also takes the opportunity to install some updates it was waiting for just this kind of blunder to install. |
@AzulCrescent i have been known to do this sometimes, and it's the worst