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I tried Debian a few times and never liked it... I like the Arch experience better.
I’m genuinely curious what you consider to be the “Arch experience”, other than pacman.
Install process/freedom of choice for more things (It's more of a blank slate)
This probably does not relate too much to arch, but on Debian I found it extremely annoying to be unable to use reboot and shutdown from terminal. That was the dealbreaker for me.
Hmm, why are you not able to shutdown/reboot from the terminal? I don't have any Debian systems running at the moment (other than Proxmox), but I've used Debian for over a decade and never had any issue using the terminal for power management functions (Proxmox included).
Sorry for the late reply, I also did not have a Debian system running. Installed it on an old laptop I had lying around to find the error. Seems like its due to Debian changing something around debian 10. Its still possible with systemctl reboot.
Ah, gotcha. I think that's just due to /sbin not being included in the PATH environmental variable for non-root users. Running
sudo <command>
will work in those cases.Maybe try this:
shutdown -P now
-P argument is for poweroff, there is probably one for reboot.
You must be root to use this command.
On Debian, you have to be root or a sudoer. Those commands are there, just not in the path of regular users.
Use
sudo reboot
systemctl poweroff
systemctl reboot
@Amongussussyballs100 @folkrav Change the runlevel?
This should work on any distribution
init 6
Should do the trick, in case systemd is not available