The Linux kernel supports rebooting using a number of different strategies[1]. Some PCs need a different one than the default in order to make sure everything is properly reset.
Linux now uses exactly the same reboot strategy as Windows does, so no PC should "need" a different one - it may be the case that driver code leaves the hardware in a state the system vendor didn't test, and using a different reboot approach may work around that, but it's not fundamentally the reboot method that's causing the problem there (https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/3561.html goes into some more detail on how all this actually works)
Yes, I didn't mean to imply that Linux was doing anything wrong, just that some hardware seems to work better with other approaches, for the reasons you state.
mjg59|1 year ago
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