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How do you really?

Reboot. The emacs solution seems to be they haven't figured out how to exit so they just stay there.

Sometimes people even write a systemd unit for it. Feature, not a bug, etc.

Yes, but it doesn't matter because emacs can do anything worth doing.

Emacs is a great OS, but a lousy editor. ;-)

Ctrl-Z, kill -9 %

That's literally what I do -- it feels safer.