Mine will do the restart and boot into Linux.

Windows Updates are always like that. Halfway through it's got to restart, bootloader picks Linux, Windows doesn't get to finish the other half of its update til the next time it's chosen.

People need to learn that it's ok to say systemd on the Internet and stop self censoring

Yes, let's keep this community family friendly. I could do without such obscenities.

This is just not true.

1. Linux does have a graceful process.
2. Windows's process is not graceful

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software

one of the reasons I'm moving away. pisses me off so much at work, I don't even want it at home

I’m a little spoiled by this. I did it on Windows and had to rebuild the boot partition.

That's weak. I always pull on the power cord until the plug comes out. That shuts it down in a second flat.

Fuck that noise sudo shutdown 0 turn off NOW bitch!

"&&" will only run shutdown if the update runs correctly.

I do ";" to definitely run the shutdown after the update process exits. (Don't want to keep the system running if nothing is happening any more.)

You don't need sudo to run poweroff on Arch, provided there's no other users logged into the system

Assuming you enter your password upon running sudo, isn't there the risk of sudo's privilege timing out if pacman takes too long to complete? I believe I tried something similar, intending to run a one-liner I could start then walk away from. However, I ended up returning to see the system not rebooted hours later.

Or is yes somehow supposed to take care of this? Sorry, newish Debian user here who hasn't ventured outside the distribution much.

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I flip the breakers so I can keep the power plug connected

I flip the breaker whenever it's time to shut down.