# How come it takes more than a minute to shutdown or reboot the system?

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**Created:** [January 20, 2023, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/how-come-it-takes-more-than-a-minute-to-shutdown-or-reboot-the-system/36242 "2023-01-20T09:42:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![limotux](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/limotux/32/35347_2.png) [@limotux](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/limotux)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/how-come-it-takes-more-than-a-minute-to-shutdown-or-reboot-the-system/36242/10 "2023-01-20T13:05:16Z")

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> [@unix\_lover](#):
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> I am on not too sure why this is happening on all arch distros?

Neither me.  
But after I did the `Magic SysRq key` it helped me switch of instantly, and I didn’t encounter this issue frequently after that, though I don’t know why!

> [@unix\_lover](#):
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> I am using grub actually, not systemd boot. Is this an issue with grub?

Of course it is up to you, but grub has what I see as an issue, in some cases after some updates you have to run certain commands or you end up with unbootable system.  
With the help of our friends here I could create a “hook” to run those commands automatically. [Grub Hook to grub-install and grub-mkconfig?](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/grub-hook-to-grub-install-and-grub-mkconfig/32585/1) and it was working fine. (How would I guarantee I would not skip running those commands in case needed!)

But when Cassini, dracut came out, and systemd-boot became the default I converted as I said for a few reasons.

- systemd-boot is much faster in booting.
- systemd-boot is simpler and less prone to breaking.
- for me, I prefered to ditch grub as… well… they changed something that caused many systems unbootable, how would I guarantee something similar won’t happen again! Just my personal point of view. But Grub was my favourite because with BTRFS I could boot to earlier snapshots.
- I am on BTRFS for many reasons, snapshots I can revert to in case something breaks.
- **Above all,** I made the changes to feel that I am on the same page, as if I had a fresh install of Cassini, where the default is systemd-boot and with dracut.

Just to be clear, I am not with/against grub/systemd-boot. It is just my personal taste, my personal feelings of what is better for me.

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