Sometimes less is more

Windows is doing stuff behind that splash screen too though

And arch does the exact same thing as Ubuntu :/ not sure what they are trying to say with this one.
- Yeah idk, many distros show the classic startup/shutdow process
- Mine just kills the power. Faster than manually unplugging the pc
It is. Just never says what’s hung.

Frankly It’s more like

Windows - “shut down please. No it’s fine, I’ll wait. Indefinately is fine”

Linux “ shut down please. You have 30 seconds or I’ll shut you down myself”
- If my pc doesn't shut down when I click on the shutdown button, I just pull it out of the wall or switch off the psu depending on my mood. At this point I think it's just affraid of me

You're forgetting the 10 minutes of mandatory Windows updates.

A stop job is running for Simple Desktop Display Manager

I think you can configure systemd to force shutdown such things in like 2 seconds which is the only way I can shut down my Thinkpad running Debian 12.
So real

I remember going from MS-DOS to Windows and being really annoyed that I couldn't see the loading log.

Same with Android phones in the beginning when they were still the scrappy underdog. I wanted to see machinery at work!

I would rather watch console output I don't understand scrolling by too fast to read than some dumb spinning dots >:[

Wait you guys don't sudo echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger?

I think you'd have to do echo o | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger, otherwise sudo only works for the echo, not the write.
- Holy shit the reason for tee never really clicked until I saw this post. I’d used it in pasted commands, but it had always seemed superfluous.
- echo c | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger 🫣
- Ah I guess I just use sudo bash a lot 😅

button?

I don't get it, shutting down looks like the Ubuntu one to me.

I get stuck on a black screen about every 10 or so reboots/shutdowns

Correction: first image: Windows update second image: Arch Linux third image: Void Linux