One of the oldest pieces of advice in the book: don't hold down the power button to turn off your computer. But is there actually any validity to this?
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@Dana Vidal you can for windows too. I prefer it that way. I like to wait on updating.
@Anony Mousse It’s not the same as when you do it with UFS though. If you shutdown UFS without the filesystem being unmounted, you will have to use fsck manually to reconstruct your filesystem. I’ve had everything from random files, to my inbox, to the entire root filesystem dumped into lost+found without names. ext’s fsck is automatic and uses the journal.
@bryan ransom You can put updates off, but if you’ve got an internet connection you can’t stop them entirely. With Linux you can squelch all updates if you want, regardless of safety.
Never had any fatal issues with it on Arch. Even if it corrupts it’s something in user space which prevents your system from turning on. And even if you shutdown during kernel update you can easily roll it back.
Windows 95/98/ME flashbacks. Who remembers hover included with Windows 95 or the multiple daily BSOD screens on Windows ME?
oh maaan, windows 95 times
i think even in Windows XP there was that option, but most PC’s had ACPI
We all have that one friend that switches it off at the wall while it’s still running games 😂😂
Yeah, no. I have a threshold for how intelligent my friends have to be. It isn’t high but it’s not that fucking low
Does nothing to anything? Lol maybe he’s just not worried about recent save! Only thing it could corrupt
MAN I still remember being scolded for turning the PC off too early — BY THE PC — and having to wait for the screen that says you can flip the switch because they couldn’t turn themselves on or off
Yeah those days. Which is why older folks now who were 30-40 then, are constantly not used to how much is automated in tech nowadays and keep asking for verbal prompts at each intermediary steps when playing with tech.
The younger people expect the automated steps, those older expect no automation and are looking for things they have to do with the tech, and that ends up meaning they click or do things they aren’t supposed to messing up an automated process. (Sometimes leading to data corruption)
There I’ve cracked the code of generational tech boomer ness. 😅
Back when you were essentially flicking the power switch that’s on the back nowadays
I legit just had that happen to me the other night… I couldn’t wake up the pc so I held it down and fought with graphics drivers for an hour…
It was probably busy trying to repair the mess and you kept interrupting it. Just walk away for a half hour and hope it eventually figures out what to do.
pull the plug straight out of the psu to avoid this. dont let the pc know your next move, tease it with the button fist then go for the kill
Was updating my graphics drivers… told me to restart the computer, instead of restarting like a normal person I used the button…
Needed a fresh windows install
@OrangePacker The driver was done installing to the point of saying a restart was required then a hard shut off bricked Windows. Makes sense.
@JJ FX Safe mode still uses the video driver, same for any HD controller drivers. That is why windows eventually allow you to load drivers during an install starting with Windows server and then windows 8. Windows 7 was pure junk anyway.
@toriless you can actually decide what drivers and if you want to use drivers on safemode xD
what doesn’t kill a pc will make it stronger. I unplug it during bios update.
@Flynn taggart Hopefully where someone who likes restoring and repurposing them will find it.
That’s what I did. PC stopped responding during alt-tabbing games. Nothing worked so I held down the power button. The windows or a driver got corrupted in such a special way that there was no option to fix it. I started suspecting it’s a hardware damage but when I installed a fresh windows on a different partition it worked fine. Not fun.
I like holding down the power button especially when the computer freezes. It feels like I’m holding a pillow over its face. Yes, now it’s time to sleep!
i only use the powerbutton method when the computer becomes unresponsive and that used to happen a lot more than now. actually been a while since I’ve had to hard shutdown the computer
Back in school my computer class teacher taught the whole class to hold the power button until the computers powered off instead of logging out because it was “faster and more secure”. Even as an 11 year old, I was baffled by his stupidity.
I just cut the power line outside my house whenever I want to turn off my PC and then I tie it back together when I want it turned on again.
No more neighbors stealing my bandwidth.
It has actually happened to me before. I was working on some school project at night and then my laptop just didn’t shut down so I long pressed the power button to shut it down. The next morning, my laptop just changed as if it just had a freshly installed version of windows installed(even the wifi modem was not working). Luckily it was fixed and I was told that it was because of windows update. Never forced shut down my laptop during updates again
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