What is wrong in using "shutdown -h now"? I use it whenever I boot my
Devuan installation 64 bit. Don't tell me opening a terminal, typing
'su' and the root password, is geeky stuff!

On 08/08/2015, Dave Turner <dave_t_turner@???> wrote:
> On 08/08/15 13:58, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>> Dave Turner <dave_t_turner@???> writes:
>>
>> [many words]
>>
>> This seems to boil down to: In its present state, I consider Devuan
>> unusable. Was that what you actually meant to say?
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> Not at all!
>
> Devuan Alpha worked perfectly well for me, but not for the normal
> people that use my iMac. They expect to click shutdown and have the
> computer shutdown, no asking for passwords, no rebooting instead of
> shutting down.
> None of us on this mailing list are what the rest of the world thinks
> of as 'normal people', we are sad-techie geeks one and all.
>
> DaveT
>
>