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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't understand why many desktop environments don't have a confirmation when you click one of those. Only ones I know that do it are GNOME and KDE

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The confirmation is annoying for many GNU+Linux users. It's like asking are you sure you want to power off even though you had to use three or four keys or mouse clicks just to get to the poweroff menu.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not the total number of clicks that matters. It's the fact that several options (sleep, reboot, shut down) are the same final click and often a pixel or two away from each other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's why I use the terminal. On KDE it's even easier because I usually already have the terminal open in dolphin, so I just click into it and type "shut" and hit tab to complete shutdown. No accidental reboots for me!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

omg shutdown user 💀 i thought everyone used poweroff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You thought wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think Cinnamon does that too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

On cinnamon: I click the power button in the menu, a pop up asks me what I want to do (suspend, restart, power off, cancel.)

I generally click suspend. There are no further pop ups.