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Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
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I feel you. At some point distro designers decided that shutdown/reboot were suggestions instead of commands. I too have had troubles with hot backpack syndrome and it's super annoying especially when traveling. You think you're going to turn on your laptop on a plane with 100% battery ready to do some offline work and now you've got a lava hot brick with 7% battery life left.