Shutdown NOW
Yes sir!
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
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Rip the power cord out of the wall
Systemctl? Bro just poweroff
I just push the button.
Muhahahahaha.
Okay, sometimes on a whim I'll do something like a "sudo shutdown -t 0 now". (... Muahahaha.)
Rarely shutdown my main computers though. Last time, years ago.
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have, right windows users?
My button does the same as poweroff though, it will still give everything a couple seconds to kill itself
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Apparently there are a lot of ways to shutdown. halt is my preference from the command line.
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Is there a "How to Linux" somewhere? I'd really like to get beyond using my CachyOS system as gui user, hell even some of the gui stuff is so alien. Felt like a lesser god when I found the repo... But terminal commands are just beyond me
This helped me quite a lot. You don't have to use arcolinux either, it's simply a guide.
https://www.arcolinux.info/learning-path/
edit i haven't used that link in awhile and i'm not sure it's the same experience anymore, some things appear to be missing. if unsure about any step, you can skip it usually. it's more of a list of things to learn.
Nothing wrong with GUI but yeah there are a lot of resources. I don't know if I can point you to any because I usually just web search the command for the thing I want to do and add it to a long running note of Linux commands
Many such efforts exist out there. [1]
Rather than link to any of those (~ in part because I don't know which one will be best for you, with each our different learning styles and needs),
I'll instead (because I know what's best for you ~ /s) offer this whimsical short path to a path of expedience, that may look a longer harder road at first, but is actually, in the longer run, the shorter road that bump-starts you from a stalled zero to a [*cringe* ~ oh am I really going to say this...?] ... linux hero. [LOL, dear goodness, what have I done? LOL. Well, you get the gist at least.] The [2nd[2]] shortest path: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t09IbcxAJlU <- follow the instructions in this 40s video.
It will take you to "the jump program" of learning Linux. ... and just like in the movie, The Matrix, "Everybody fails the first time." "Yeah, but what if he doesn't?"
[1: websearching for lists of basic/"essential" linux commands is one way to trickle in some learning [with a little wax-on wax-off practice]. man man can help. IDK, maybe some familiarisation with the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard), some lectures on free software philosophy, unix philosophy, and following the curiosities from there, then the "how to linux" just sort of emerges organically from the awareness. ... Things really start to take off, once you know about A: documentation (e.g. man pages (for a start)), and B: pipes (and other redirects). [Oh, and C: your package manager basic commands to install, search, remove, update list of available packages, and upgrade all packages.]]
[2: first's not relevant here... higher shelf, needs more breadth of basics before going deeper. No point learning about poly-distros if don't yet even know 1 distro. And so the 1st shortest is only shortest once already~ ... never mind. We're not supposed to talk about it. ;D]
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It's amazing that my pc is set to shut down when I press power button.
Not even "press and hold for a sec." No I just press the power and by the time I lift my finger it's already shutting down.
I usually map the power button to shut down, although on laptop if I close the screen after shutdown it'll go to sleep mid shutdown
Windows 10 has had a bug for about 3 years now. Where if you choose "install update and shutdown" and instead it reboots.
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Windows + R cmd [enter] Shutdown -r -s -t 0 [enter]
This might sound crazy, but you don't have to shutdown your computer every time you're done using it. You can just lock the screen and walk away.
Lock the screen? Pshh... I set mine up where after 15 minutes of inactivity the screen shuts off. that's it. i'll restart if the update tells me to.
Screen off after 15 mins? Pshh... I ride xset s off ; xset -dpms ; xset s noblank. I'll restart if things get crashy from me not restarting after an upgrade upgrades any of my currently running singletons (e.g. kernel, init, x11).
[hopefully [others reply with taking it even further and] this cascades all the way to butterflies.]
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meanwhile on KDE: A stop job is running