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		i386 on March 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux gets frozen, what do you do? Agreed. Why isn't this default behaviour? Is there some negative aspect that's not obvious?

marcosdumay on March 14, 2014 [–]

That's because the default behaviour of CTRL + ALT + DEL is to issue a proper reboot.

That, and because X consumes those keys, making them useless when X goes bad (what is about all the times that Linux freezes and it's not hardware fault).

Yuioup on March 14, 2014 | [–]

Okay maybe another key combination?

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