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This is blatantly false, 99% of Gnu/Linux distros actually have systemd nicely asking the processes to terminate themselves, it just doesn't take longer than ~10 seconds usually.
This meme would imply a sigkill.
Edit: the distros that don't use systemd likely don't do any such thing either, I just don't know about them.
Except on the Linux systems I've used, when I ask it to shut down, it shuts down no matter what. Windows and macOS let programs stop the shutdown process indefinitely (when shutdown/reboot are invoked the usual way).
I think that's what the meme is trying to get at.
That would depend on the DE I suppose, on GNOME it'll show open programmes and wait 60 seconds for the user to intervene IIRC.
Still doesn't kill them though and asks them to properly terminate themselves which allows them to take care of everything.
Yeah, I run
i3and headless servers, so it'spowerofforrebootfor me. Always works as advertised.