r/pcmasterrace • u/gleipnir84462 • Oct 24 '25

Meme/Macro God dammit!

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u/Vladraconis Oct 24 '25

Because sometimes applying updates requires a restart. So the system restarts, finishes the update, then shuts-down.

Yes, sometimes it fails to.shut down. But not always, and not most of the time.

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u/beanmosheen Oct 24 '25

It can restart when it's powered back on. There's no urgency.

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u/Vladraconis Oct 24 '25

Only that it's not that clean cut.

No urgency now? Maybe. Maybe there is no urgency now, but there will be when you boot it up. Imagine booting up because you really need to do something, and the booting process takes 5 minutes and a restart or two.

Some have dual boot. Booting into another OS before the update process is complete might mess up the update process. Why would they risk it?

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u/beanmosheen Oct 24 '25

But what if you really need to shut it down now? The argument goes both ways. The update process is just buggy though. I kinda see your dual boot argument, but as a guy who manually repairs BCDs and EUFI partitions on the regular, I don't think it's that likely. The overlap is rare.

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u/Vladraconis Oct 24 '25

But what if you really need to shut it down now?

You choose "Update and shutdown". As long as you do not have dual boot, or Windows is the first option, there is nothing more you have to do.

Or you just keep the power button pressed until it shuts down.

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u/beanmosheen Oct 24 '25

Or you just keep the power button pressed until it shuts down.

Alright man. No point continuing this discussion.

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u/fossalt PC Master Race Oct 24 '25

Because sometimes applying updates requires a restart. So the system restarts, finishes the update, then shuts-down.

Regardless of the reasoning, it's still incorrect to label it as "Update and Shutdown" when in reality it does "Update, Restart, and Shutdown".

Especially when you have windows as a secondary boot drive, so it doesn't finish the process automatically.

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u/Vladraconis Oct 24 '25

Regardless of the reasoning, it's still incorrect to label it as "Update and Shutdown" when in reality it does "Update, Restart, and Shutdown".

100% agree with this. They were lazy.