Comment on Another reason to love Linux
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 days agoI just flip through all the workspaces, make sure there’s nothing going on I care about, and then hit the button.
Computers that teach you not to do that, but instead to just blindly pick “shut down” and then assume that the computer will protect you against having anything unsaved, but also refuse to shut down if there’s some app this is not cooperating, have 0 upside compared to the other way.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
There’s a line somewhere between “computers that teach you not to do that” and computers that prevent dire consequences when you make a human mistake. The “just don’t do that” policy is never enough. If there are no safeguards, at one point the mistake will be made.
Even to highly trained astronauts: wehackthemoon.com/…/margaret-hamilton-her-daughte…
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 days ago
Yeah, I can agree with that, I’m just saying at the moment of shutdown isn’t the time to do that and often the programs that are holding up my shutdown are doing it for reasons of their own, not because they’re trying to help me by saving my work. Just do autosave and let me shut my stuff down.