reupload because i mixed up sigterm and sigkill like a dumb fuck
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Ironic. Because a bug on CachyOS KDE made the shut down button in the quick menu disappear. Nobody in their community could help me or explain why. Generally I would say support is rather spotty with CachyOS in general. Of course you can shut it down in many other ways but that was my preferred one. So I just lived with it and instead used ctrl+alt+delete for a while until the button magically returned one day.
I'm kind of a linux noob, and i currently run catchyos and there are some things i don't really understand. Last time i used linux is like 10 years ago, and i read and experienced that a really big plus on linux compared to windows is that you don't need to restart when yoj install or update, but on catchy, you need to restart almost every update, which is almost every day it seems. Another thing that puzzles me is that every now and then, i restart for the update and wander off, and when i come back i don't use the pc anymore and want to shut it down, but in the log in screen there is no shut down button, just a restart button.
CachyOS based on Arch, with basically arch repos, so it have rolling release with frequent kernel updates. And yes, you need to reboot your system to apply kernel update, so CachyOS (cause it targets casual audience) explicitly prompts to user that reboot is needed, to avoid weird arch quirks like losing ability to connect new usb devices after kernel update (arch is quirky like that). Better safe than sorry.
You can just, well, not update that frequent. My server also running arch, I update it like, each couple of months, updated packages will just pile up and go in one update, that the beauty of rolling release (the ugly side is that no one tests if big update like that will work or not, so you may end up with dead system or it just wont update for example, lmao).
I use Arch personally, and as mentioned you should restart every update - but you can just not update everyday (updates don't even come at a scheduled time, it's just packages getting new versions whenever, so by the time you finish updating there could be another updated package for you)
I think updating weekly and as necessary is a good schedule, though if you don't update frequently and try to install something new, the version pacman will try to install will be based on your local repository information, matched to your other packages, and might no longer be available in mirrors. And you shouldn't install an updated version of just one package, because if it pulls in the wrong updated dependencies you could break your install.
In general, it's true that Linux doesn't need to restart for most updates. However, if you get a power cut right in the middle of an update, that could leave your OS in a really bad state. Therefore, for safety reasons, some distros (apparently including CachyOS) do updates in a 'safe mode' on boot, so that if there's a power cut it just rolls back cleanly.
In short, how exactly distros approach updates differ slightly. A tradeoff between safety and convenience.
I may be weird but I always like opening a terminal and I have sdn aliased to shutdown now
If you use Emby Desktop, when it's full screen it interrupts all shutdown commands. Only GUI option is 'cancel', running shutdown remotely fails.. Just need to exit full screen but who the hell decided an Electron app was more important than my choices