[Traster]

For me, OS X has always been worse about that. Want to shutdown? Better get ready to manually close every single application, because if any of them disagree then that shutdown ain't happening.

[colejohnson66]

Windows does that sometimes too though. Is there no “This program isn’t responding. Do you want to force kill it?” like thing?

[Wowfunhappy]

There technically is, but the dialog takes too long to pop up, and sometimes never does for some inexplicable reason.

[amiga_500]

Linux: sudo shutdown -h now

It does my bidding.

[lokedhs]

I've always typed poweroff. I guess that's because of my time at Sun, since that is the fastest way to shutdown a Solaris machine.

I was always under the impression that shutdown -h ran more shutdown scripts?

[Wowfunhappy]

I was about to say—this is how I shut down macOS when it doesn't feel like cooperating.

It would of course be nice if the GUI just consistently did what it's supposed to, but oh well...

[sneak]

This also works in osx, and it’s much faster than the gui based shutdown.