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[Dylan McCall <dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx>]

> It lets you decide which option to display in on the Power button. So in
> this case, it is more customisable. So in this case, the power button in the
> Start Menu is not random. By default, it is set to "Shutdown", but you can
> change it to "Lock", "Hibernate", or "Sleep". I know this much because I
> used to use Windows 7 before I chose to switch completely to Ubuntu. Windows
> 7 does display an options to "Wait for programs to quit" or "Restart
> anyway". But does not allow other programs like Openoffice.org/Libreoffice
> to ask you if you want to save changes. Windows automatically tries to quit
> all programs when the option to wait or restart anyway are shown. But back
> on topic. What you said towards the end is completely what I was saying, so
> it does not make any sense to me that you are re-stating that. What I said
> was that people DO expect the computer to shut down WITHOUT the confirmation
> step. If people just hit the power off option in Ubuntu and walk away, the
> computer will not shut down at all. It will just sit there with the
> confirmation window open. Thanks!!!

But here's the difference I'm getting at: in Windows, the behaviour
changes. Sometimes there's a confirmation, sometimes (more often)
there isn't. That causes problems. In Ubuntu, the behaviour does not
change: there is _always_ a confirmation, so users become accustomed
to that happening.

Dylan