cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
Can’t get an auto shutdown at a specific time working on Bazzite.
I have a few 5th and 6th Gen Intel laptops and mini PCs for my kids with games. Working well enough for the most part and PAM account login time limits what times if the day they can sign in but I want it to auto logout or even better force shut down at the end of the day instead of them staying up all night.
Most guides recommend using cron which is fine in general but it isn’t available in Bazzite. Even when I tried installing it since it isn’t included by default. Tried two different guides and an AI recommendation to do it via Systemd but that isn’t working as mentioned at the top.
What problems are you having with cron? I’ve been annoyed with cron many times over the years. I suppose you could just run
in a terminal to schedule a shutdown at 8pm. Or maybe edit your sudo file to allow user to run shutdown without a password and throw it in a user startup file.
Cron just doesn’t exist for Bazzite. I’m sure there technically is a way to add it back but not practical.
Hadn’t thought about a user startup file. Not exactly a clean solution but shrug if it works I can live with it. I’ll add it to my list of ideas to try.