Comment 8 for bug 276134

I can only add my support to the people who think this bug should be of high importance, nay critical!

I cannot conceive of how anyone can believe that just killing open processes without any prompt to save outstanding data on shutdown could ever be acceptable to end users. Spending 2 hours working on a complicated spreadsheet which then gets lost if I forget it's open is plain crazy.

If you want to want to avoid swathes of new users taking up Linux instead of certain other operating systems I could mention then carry on camping. It only takes the above scenario to happen once and you've lost that user for life. Trust me, I've seen it happen.