On 2026-03-22, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why would you reboot or poweroff without saving your work first? > > Why not? If the software does its thing, it all should go well. >
I use vim and there's a .swp file in the event of an irregular system shutdown, e.g. a power outage or, as described by the OP, a system that has crashed due to a buggy graphics card/driver. I would not depend on systemd or anything else to send the canonical SIGTERM to processes, neither in the former nor in the latter case. At any rate, I don't depend on much but typing :w as I go. YMMV.
