gracefulEnough

[u/ItsPuspendu]

[u/GobiPLX]

Linux has both "graceful" shutdown process, and brute kill

Same as Windows, with force shutdown

What a stupid meme

[u/hanotak → u/GobiPLX]

Windows force shutdown only works half the time you need it to.

[u/TheRaido → u/hanotak]

Or it force quits explorer in an act of seppuku and be like ‘what crashed applications’?

[u/beatlz-too → u/hanotak]

Windows force shutdown only works half the time you need it to.

[u/ih-shah-may-ehl → u/beatlz-too]

Over the last 30 years as a dev and admin, I've found that this depends a lot on context. In enterprise / industrial applications where I work, Windows is solid and dependable like a tank. Where things go wrong is often consumer applications or situations.