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Another reason to love Linux
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Application optimization reduces disk usage and reclaims space. 🙂
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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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Double edged sword. Applications asking if you want to save your stuff aren't designed to annoy you, they're designed to save you from the headache of losing your work.
But I can see why you'd want the power button to be a "stronger signal" than clicking Shut Down in some menu.
I guess now is a good time to knee-jerkily yell "session management!"
Apps and DEs with proper session management in place will still save your work in progress and restore it on next logon.
I 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.
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 by highly trained astronauts: https://wehackthemoon.com/people/margaret-hamilton-her-daughters-simulation
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.
Until your toddler presses it and the OS just tosses all the work that you didn't save yet. It's good with a safeguard, and Windows will eventually force shut down after a timeout.
2025 no autosave skill issue