Thanks Windows

"It is pretty late. Are you sure you want to restart instead of shutting down?"

Windows is designed to ask you annoyingly if you really want to do something that can be undone in the next second.
But if the action is critical, dangerous or takes very long, windows will place that button so you can easily misclick on it and will never bother to ask you for confirmation.

Don't forget the infamous
"Update and shutdown".
That sometimes gets real funky on Windows. From doing a restart anyway to doing almost nothing till you boot it next day and can wait 1.5 hours performing the actual upgrade

@Lensflare I really do not understand why they don’t prompt you with any confirmation that you want to do it (they did back in the Windows XP era!)

macOS does it. All Linux distros do it. Why Windows makes it so easy to miss click the power option?

Another thing is:
I almost always put my mac into sleep mode instead of shutting down. It runs like that for months without any problems.
Windows on the other hand becomes slow and buggy after just a few days. So weird…

Just for the record: My comment was sarcasm.

I didn't expect anyone to actually want to be asked whether they are sure that they actually want to shutdown/restart...

It is annoying when games do that and it would also be annoying when the OS would do it. I am using Gentoo as my main system and i just type "shutdown -h now" into a console when i want to shutdown that beast (doesn't happen often enough for automation).

But i also like the current behaviour of the game launcher Windows 10 to just fucking shut the hell down when i click that menu item. If i would have left anything unsaved open, i would have plenty of time to cancel the shutdown as soon as the wait-for-tasks list would come up anyways.

Now that i think about it, they could make it configurable though. There obviously are people with cats/children and/or disabilities out there...

@Lensflare yes! And no.

On my MB Pro 14”, there was a very known memory leak of WindowServer, caused by ProMotion and/or dynamic wallpapers.

But it seems like the latest updated have fixed it.

Sometimes you shutdown and come back the next day and find out it is still active, as XY application prevented shutdown 😒

When there are no important data to be saved, obviously

If something important has to be saved, Windows enjoys forcing the shutdown

Or at least, that’s my impression

@rov3rand0m this is exactly the kind of things that need to be redesigned and implemented from scratch when a new major version of an OS is made (like Windows 11).
That would make it worth to switch.
I don’t want the same old shit in a shiny new UI.

The alt-f4 menu can be navigated by keyboard entirely thus avoiding the problem of misclicking, and it also remembers your last choice.