F17 takes so long to reboot/poweroff

[Richard Vickery]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:

>
>
> Am 24.07.2012 19:39, schrieb Richard Vickery:
> > Why do you need to reboot? What are you doing at power-off that you need
> to hang around and wait for it? If a
> > portable computer, just close it, pack it away before the lights go out,
> and walk away? and is a minute and 38
> > seconds really SO important? If this minuscule amount time is so
> important, you could retire and get more of your
> > minute and a half.
>
> strange argumentation
>
> it does not matter WHY someone reboots a machine
> nor is not reboot a solution for any problem
>
> rebooting a remote-machine after updates which is not
> important enough to set up remote KVM as example is
> not funny if you have to wait a long time without feedback
>
>
My point here is taken out of out of its context: it was not rebooting I
was concerned about, but that the world is not going to end in a minute and
a half. Included in my concern were many things: one was to get someone
with more knowledge than I to help this gentleman - I have stated before
that I am a political scientist, not a real one (sorry if I offend any
other political scientists here, that is not my purpose); another concern
is that when I used MS stuff, I was concerned and fearful about a longer
wait periods because of their crashing occurrences, and in Linux waiting is
no big deal because Linux does what it is supposed to do versus MS Windows
which teaches an individual to freak out when the computer does something
like that in question; another concern is that I am, and cannot un-become
over-night, nor would I want to, a qigong master who doesn't worry about
time - and this is why mine is, as Harald says, a "strange argument";
everything the qigong practitioner is, is strange to those who don't
practice.

Best regards,
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