[HN Gopher] Today I learned you can pause the Windows Task Manag...
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Today I learned you can pause the Windows Task Manager moving apps
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Author : isaacfrond
Score : 246 points
Date : 2023-08-16 12:49 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| doctorpangloss wrote:
| Give me a way "taskkill /f /t" processes from the task bar, and
| then I never have to visit Task Manager in the first place.
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| Didn't they just add one to the right click menu? There was a
| story about it recently.
|
| _edit_ link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151607
| wedd222 wrote:
| > While I have your attention, you might also like to know that
| you can spin the gear in Windows 11's Notepad app. It's like a
| digital fidget spinner, and part of the many delightful little
| additions to Windows 11.
|
| Hey Microsoft, thanks for the spinner, but how about instead you
| un-ruin right clicking in explorer and give me my corners back.
| xnyan wrote:
| Shift + Right Click shows the classic right click menu. I'd
| prefer a setting to turn it off, but it's just muscle memory
| for me now and I never see the new menu.
| jaywalk wrote:
| You can restore the legacy right click functionality in
| Explorer with a registry hack:
| https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/restor...
| wruza wrote:
| Pretty sure there's a WinTweak11 or something for all of that
| already.
| usrbinbash wrote:
| How about they replace notepad.exe with something offering the
| bare minimum of what Linux users get in the default text
| editors of their Desktop Environments?
| buggy6257 wrote:
| Because as we all know as software engineers, Windows as a
| whole is likely only written by a single team or maybe even
| single developer, and thus multiple features cannot be worked
| on at the same time, and thus you have to pick between these
| two things.
| userbinator wrote:
| There's something called budget. People are being paid to
| write frivolous crap, when those funds could've gone to
| better uses. If you're someone who pays for software, you
| want your money to pay for the things you want.
| johnnyworker wrote:
| That in itself is orthogonal to progress or regression. For
| example, while one team could put a fidget spinner in
| Notepad, another could ruin right-clicking in Explorer. Which
| obviously raises the question if another team could be spun
| up to incentivize the first team to distract the second team
| long enough for a fourth team to swoop in and fix right-
| clicking in Explorer.
| yomlica8 wrote:
| After that, you have a whale eat the whole let of them. But
| then how do you get rid of the whale?
| mrguyorama wrote:
| You ask Japan to conduct some research on it.
| chikitabanana wrote:
| >a single developer
|
| you don't actually believe this
| Dalewyn wrote:
| I actually welcome the return of easter eggs because that was a
| time when Microsoft programs were sincerely awesome.
| nailer wrote:
| Blogspam, direct link:
| https://twitter.com/JenMsft/status/1691563112175165724
| kongolongo wrote:
| On Windows 11, task manager has a search function now!
| rkagerer wrote:
| Great feature, regrettably obscured by a lack of discoverability.
|
| The norm used to be to show shortcut accelerators right next to
| their menu dropdowns. That would naturally advertise those most
| useful to the user, without getting in the way.
|
| Tangentially, the correct way to present nifty tips like this is
| NOT in a "tour of new features" wizard spammed at the user when
| they're opening your app to try and get something important done.
| gregschlom wrote:
| > The norm used to be to show shortcut accelerators right next
| to their menu dropdowns. That would naturally advertise those
| most useful to the user, without getting in the way.
|
| Yes to this. The Task Manager does have a menu entry for this
| (View -> Update Speed -> Paused). If they had written "Ctrl" to
| the right of "Paused" (as used to be the norm), it would be
| much more discoverable.
|
| (Incidentally, when I hold Ctrl and open that menu, the update
| speed still displays what was selected before, e.g. "Low". So
| the Ctrl thing was probably implemented as a hack that bypasses
| the menu.)
| nhinck2 wrote:
| The shortcut text labels are for toggling or effectively
| clicking that option.
|
| This is for press and hold which has never had shortcut text
| associated.
| layer8 wrote:
| While a bit less convenient, Alt+V, U, P/N (and Alt+V, R) are
| discoverable.
|
| The bigger problem I see is that Microsoft programs don't come
| with adequate documentation any more like they used to (which
| was called "online help", though really offline in today's
| terminology).
| almostnormal wrote:
| > The bigger problem I see is that Microsoft programs don't
| come with adequate documentation any more like they used to
| (which was called "online help", though really offline in
| today's terminology).
|
| It used to be delivered with printed documentation.
| layer8 wrote:
| Yeah, I didn't want go that far back, though I have fond
| memories of the multiple ring binders for the MS Word
| manuals. :)
| whywhywhywhy wrote:
| >"tour of new features" wizard spammed at the user when they're
| opening your app
|
| If you ever see these in an app it's a sign the team has a
| talent problem. People actually with talent to solve problems
| with the app would actually tweak the interfaces to make the
| tools discoverable or better. Teams with low talent (Modern
| Adobe etc) just work on spamming the front of house with
| messaging (Written in web tech that flashes up as a white
| rectangle first, obvs) in the hopes of changing user actions
| rather than actually working on the product itself.
|
| Once I realized this I see this everywhere and the products
| that do it just never evolve or get better.
| stetrain wrote:
| > Tangentially, the correct way to present nifty tips like this
| is NOT in a "tour of new features" wizard spammed at the user
| when they're opening your app to try and get something
| important done.
|
| My favorite is when this happens in a tool I've used for years
| just because I have a new account flag, like signing into Slack
| at a new job.
|
| Bonus points if it's completely unskippable or keeps happening
| as you touch each part of the app during use.
| Arrath wrote:
| Ah my arch-nemesis, the unskippable, rigidly timed "How to
| use the controls" tutorial that requires me to click ok to
| advance through every control, at the beginning of _every
| single one_ of the several dozen mandatory, annual training
| modules that corporate requires I sit through.
| albert_e wrote:
| Yep ... or just putting this info (keyboard shortcuts) in the
| "Help" menu which is the last item in a standard menu bar.
| jbverschoor wrote:
| Or just make it an actual menu item / command, because that's
| what it is..
| naikrovek wrote:
| this is the correct way to expose keyboard shortcuts to
| users. this is how it used to be done before UX people
| started getting involved and following trends instead of
| thinking about usability.
| wongarsu wrote:
| It is. On Windows 10 it's View -> Update Speed -> Paused.
| On Windows 11 it's more hidden because the redesign got rid
| of the menu bar, but you can still find it by clicking on
| the gear icon in the bottom, then changing the "real time
| update speed" dropdown.
|
| Maybe a big "pause" button next to the "end task" button
| would have been better, but it's not _that_ undiscoverable.
| It 's certainly easier to find than the option to show
| additional columns in the details view, like gpu memory
| used, the full command line, or total CPU time.
| tom_ wrote:
| The shortcut isn't shown though, possibly at least in
| part because it's not a shortcut to that option. Try
| selecting the Normal speed, then holding Ctrl, and
| activating the menu - note that the Normal speed is still
| highlighted. And yet the display is still paused!
|
| (Of course, just because it's not a shortcut to that
| option specifically, that doesn't mean that the current
| solution of not showing this shortcut _anywhere_ is the
| right one.)
| JohnFen wrote:
| It's undiscoverable enough that lots of people (including
| myself) had no idea that this was possible, though!
|
| Not saying that as a criticism of this particular
| application. Discoverability is a very hard problem
| (which is probably why the modern trend is to just give
| up on it entirely). I'm glad that Microsoft didn't
| completely neglect it here.
|
| Edit: Does View -> Update Speed -> Paused do what it
| implies? Does it pause all updates? because that's not
| what I want here... what I want is to stop the reordering
| of the items in the list, not to stop the updating of the
| items.
| myself248 wrote:
| > the redesign got rid of the menu bar
|
| This drives me batty, and it just feels like an insult.
|
| For decades, the argument for sticking with Windows was
| that it was a single stable UI/UX with lots of
| established conventions. The same menus in the same
| places, the same hotkeys worked everywhere, etc. Linux
| couldn't claim that, was the pitch.
|
| Since human time is the expensive part, it didn't matter
| if the OS itself wasn't exactly performant, and we could
| afford to throw hardware at its ever-more-bloated
| footprint, because the investment in _human reflexes_
| paid dividends whose value far exceeded some extra sticks
| of RAM or whatever.
|
| Now that hardware is virtually free and it _should_ cost
| nothing to continue that legacy of consistency, they've
| fucked it all up! Teams is completely unusable by
| keyboard, the new UI skin got rid of all the menu bars,
| lately I've found GUI elements that're _hidden until you
| mouse over them_, like are they kidding?
|
| I feel like I've been played for a fool. Every time I run
| into one of these insults, it pisses me off way more than
| the individual problem should, because it twists this
| 3-decade-old knife in my gut.
| wruza wrote:
| _For decades, the argument for sticking with Windows was
| that it was a single stable UI /UX with lots of
| established conventions. The same menus in the same
| places, the same hotkeys worked everywhere, etc_
|
| Except for windows 98 control panel, windows 2000 control
| panel, windows xp control panel, windows vista control
| panel and windows 10 control panel and system settings.
| wokkel wrote:
| Thats what you get when you let a an effective monopoly
| be run by baboons.
| vxNsr wrote:
| I knew everything was going downhill when I saw the
| windows 8 back button. It looked like it'd been hastily
| drawn by me in MSPaint for a school assignment. Nothing
| was aligned, and the arrow was actually pixelated on my
| 720p laptop screen
| vxNsr wrote:
| > _For decades, the argument for sticking with Windows
| was that it was a single stable UI /UX with lots of
| established conventions. The same menus in the same
| places, the same hotkeys worked everywhere, etc. Linux
| couldn't claim that, was the pitch._
|
| And then Microsoft let their employees use any machine/OS
| they wanted and all the designers promptly choose
| MacBooks, and now Windows is slowly morphing into
| macOSLite. Taking all the most annoying design concepts
| from macOS and trying to unsuccessfully merge or replace
| them with the very thoroughly designed and developed
| Windows conventions.
| david422 wrote:
| Get rid of the menu bar to free up more space. Get giant
| 4k monitors. Pad all the UI elements with extra space. It
| just gets dumb.
| baq wrote:
| I've started to browse the web on 80% by default because
| it's preposterous and ridiculous. I don't want fancy
| designs. I want boring predictable accessible UIs with
| maximum amount of information on one screen.
| LoganDark wrote:
| I wish more operating systems had adopted macOS's feature
| to search through menu bar items, which also automatically
| points to where it is in the menu.
| graypegg wrote:
| Oh god you've hit a nerve. I've never learned anything useful
| from a forced tour.
|
| I've been in meetings where we're discussing adding these, and
| the intentions all seem to be "we want to help users find
| things" but they're somehow totally ineffective at that job.
|
| ALL the information at once, presented in a way you can't leave
| or return, is just the wrong solution. I honestly think it's
| just assumed these help users because someone saw some other
| product use it once.
| sublinear wrote:
| Forced tours strongly remind me of bad presentations given by
| people trying to wipe their hands clean of responsibility.
|
| They don't want to admit their monolithic UI is a mess. I
| miss the days when apps were much simpler and bundled
| together as a suite instead of one foolishly consistent...
| thing.
| RajT88 wrote:
| These kinds of features are what breaks in new Windows
| releases.
|
| For example: in windows explorer you can start typing the name
| of the file and it will character by character match it to a
| file. This got reduced to just the first character when Win11
| shipped (now fixed).
| entropie wrote:
| This is a very old feature. Iam pretty sure that was around
| since like win 98 or even 95.
| [deleted]
| wolpoli wrote:
| This feature will likely completely disappear once that part
| of Explorer is rewritten.
| baq wrote:
| Did the same guy also made the start menu search 'more
| maintainable' in the same fashion? I've had to install power
| toys to get working app search.
| david422 wrote:
| Reminds me of macOS menus. Hold down the option key and some
| menu items change. Like, what?
| [deleted]
| orbital-decay wrote:
| Windows is also like that - Shift + right click presents a
| different context menu on Explorer icons, taskbar shortcuts,
| and probably in some other places.
| [deleted]
| HeckFeck wrote:
| > NOT in a "tour of new features" wizard spammed
|
| Oh man, if there's any way to guarantee I won't notice your
| features, that's it. Please also freeze half the app and jump
| your wizard modal around the screen so I've no easy way to
| dismiss it.
|
| And the only thing worse is games having cutscenes that explain
| 'feature X' in 'BOOMING EPIC VOICE' for everything I click in
| the menu. Looking at you, Back4Blood.
| user070223 wrote:
| My tip: download sysinternals procexp(taskmgr with more features)
| (or download the entire suite, possibly from the microsoft
| store), on the menu you have the option to permenantly replace
| the taskmgr
| spiralx wrote:
| The guy who wrote the original Task Manager has a video about how
| it came to be, how it works and some of the "hidden" features
| such as the one in the article:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve95Nh690l0
|
| He's also got a new video trying to see how the NT4 Task Manager
| handles 32 CPU cores lol.
| lurtbancaster wrote:
| I only discovered this because of an accidental keyboard
| malfunction ~10 years ago.
|
| I pressed Ctrl+Shift+Escape to open Task Manager. And then I was
| confused that the list wasn't moving around. Sorted by CPU usage
| and still, the list just wasn't updating.
|
| Thought I'd discovered some rare bug. So I closed task manager
| and then when I tried to open it up again using
| Ctrl+Shift+Escape, I realized the Ctrl key was already pressed.
|
| Thank you to the grime in the walls of the key housing of my Ctrl
| key in my uncleaned membrane keyboard. Wouldn't have discovered
| this feature without you.
| HeckFeck wrote:
| A bit like how we discovered sticky keys from hammering 'Shift'
| while playing full screen games on Windows 98. Cost me more
| than a few lives...
| bentcorner wrote:
| I just realized I've been triggering this accidentally for
| months if not years. Every so often I'd notice that Task
| Manager would stop updating and I always thought it was some
| kind of bug where the "Update period" would get set to
| "Paused". All this time it was because I pressed Ctrl.
| ChoGGi wrote:
| I always just went to the menu and changed refresh time, but this
| will make it easier.
| sphars wrote:
| From the comments on the verge's article: if you hold down the F5
| key, it'll increase the refresh speed. Not sure why you'd want
| the refresh speed higher though...
| WorldMaker wrote:
| There's also View > Update Speed > High and you don't need to
| hold a key.
|
| Faster refresh can help if you are debugging certain types of
| processes. (Though you probably want a real performance testing
| tool at some point if you are doing that a lot.)
| netsharc wrote:
| F5 means refresh now, on Windows 7 opening the "View" menu
| shows Refresh Now and the F5 shorcut key right-aligned. Geez,
| where are all the shortcut keys, Windows 10?
| nottorp wrote:
| > Microsoft is working on a force quit option to close apps
| without the Task Manager in Windows 11 simply from a right-click
| option in the taskbar.
|
| When did they put that in os x? In 1.0?
| wombat-man wrote:
| The taskbar. I think the equivalent in macos would be force
| quit from the dock which I don't see. Just quit.
| david_allison wrote:
| Hold 'option' and "Force Quit" appears
| wombat-man wrote:
| Ah
| nottorp wrote:
| If the app is frozen you also get 'force quit' directly.
| danjc wrote:
| Ya know what else jumps around - the contents of the stupid start
| menu. Super irritating when the wrong app starts because as you
| clicked, it reshuffled to render additional items that loaded
| async.
| elorant wrote:
| If you sort by name the UI remains stale.
| bluedragontea wrote:
| Task Manager is missing "filter by name" which Sysinternals
| Process Explorer has.
| jaywalk wrote:
| Windows 11 has it.
| toss1 wrote:
| This is great! It would be much better if they made it more
| discoverable.
|
| What I miss most is the ability in earlier TaskMgr versions to
| select an app and Switch To that app (RtClick menu). Far more
| convenient way to see _IF_ I need to kill the app or whatever
| other action.
|
| It'd be really cool to have that back with this newly discovered
| (to us) Ctrl-to-pause function.
| eob wrote:
| There used to be a hack to get around password protected screen
| savers in which you'd do the following (IIRC):
|
| - Drag the password window around the screen furiously
|
| - Press Ctrl-Alt-Del as you did it
|
| I think it would just dump you straight to the desktop.
|
| I remember doing it in Circuit City as a kid to access computers.
| lapsis_beeftech wrote:
| I prefer to keep the task manager processes sorted by PID, that
| way the order is stable with new processes appearing at the end
| of the list.
| alliao wrote:
| been playing that I'm the OS game and this comment brings joy
| userbinator wrote:
| I wonder how long that has been there? But View -> Update Speed
| -> Paused has been there since the beginning and it's much more
| discoverable.
| almostnormal wrote:
| Is it a feature of the task manager itself? Or possibly a feature
| of the list, which switches to multi-select mode wheb ctrl is
| held?
|
| If the latter is true, it might work in explorer, too, which
| shuffles files around when displaying network drives or directory
| entries change.
| dmccarty wrote:
| It's a nice little tip, although I have to question any article
| that claims task manager items are "randomly moving around."
|
| FWIW I always assumed anyone who really cared about this stuff
| was using Sysinternals's excellent Process Explorer instead.
| genocidicbunny wrote:
| I don't think I could even describe what the current Task
| Manager window looks like because I've been using Process
| Explorer as a replacement for probably a decade now.
| Slackwise wrote:
| > I have to question any article that claims task manager items
| are "randomly moving around."
|
| "Randomly" is colloquially used to mean "chaotically" in a lot
| of contexts, and the chaotic they mean is "unpredictable enough
| as to seem or feel random".
| roelschroeven wrote:
| Or Process Hacker (https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/) which
| IMO is even better.
| threeboy wrote:
| You can also just sort by name.
| drumhead wrote:
| I did not know this, but now I dont have to play the whack-a-mole
| catch the app to kill it game anymore.
| brudgers wrote:
| Clicking on the Name column also works.
| isaacfrond wrote:
| I've used that app for 20+ years. And cursed the moving around
| apps all that time. Turns out there is a single keyboard click
| trick to avoid it (press CTRL, that is). I feel a bit stupid now.
| stevenwoo wrote:
| I think I've used Windows since the beginning and I don't think
| it's anything to be ashamed of - there is no status update on
| the user interface (at least on my Windows 10 Task Manager) to
| indicate that pressing CTRL has any effect - it's like a
| precursor to all those hidden multiple finger/movement gestures
| on modern phones except with possibly less discoverability.
| seanp2k2 wrote:
| You're not the stupid one, their UI designers / devs are for
| hiding a useful feature and making the default UX suck.
| fortyseven wrote:
| It's not intuitive. Not your fault. No reason to have guessed
| that.
| leptons wrote:
| Sorting by "Name" also achieves more or less the same thing.
| ourmandave wrote:
| Maybe it will be a question on your next DevOps job interview.
| karakot wrote:
| yes, a good example for a bad question.
| seanp2k2 wrote:
| "Do you recall __X obscure fact__" just like too much of
| standardized testing.
|
| Edit: another example would be something like judging
| someone on if they remember the option name in an API call
| for a specific library. Trivial to google. Whiteboard
| interviews for stuff like this are asinine.
| mynegation wrote:
| I haven't used windows in a while, I believe I just sorted by
| the name column to put everything in a fixed place.
| Novosell wrote:
| Yeah, I did precisely the same thing. I'm floored that people
| have suffered from this "issue" to be honest.
| sphars wrote:
| If you're looking for a specific program/app, then this is
| the way. But what the article is talking about is when
| sorting by the CPU column (for a high usage app), as
| everything jumps around quite a bit.
| toast0 wrote:
| My pattern was sort by whatever usage to identify the app I
| want to interact with; if it's constantly at the top, easy
| peasy; if not, I can now sort by name, because I'm looking
| for a specific program.
| akira2501 wrote:
| The real problem is "instantaneous CPU usage" is pretty
| useless to users. It'd be like trying to judge the speed of
| my car solely by gear ratio and engine RPM. Perhaps some
| gauge to show me the actual derivative value would be
| smarter.
| TheSpiceIsLife wrote:
| If you know the gear ratio (ok, and diff ratio, and wheel
| circumference) and engine RPM, you can derive the speed
| with high confidence.
|
| Perhaps what you meant was _solely by the engine RPM_.
| gnatman wrote:
| If I'm exiting the highway into a 35-mph zone, I don't
| want to derive my speed with high confidence from 4 other
| numbers, I want to see that pertinent number directly.
| akira2501 wrote:
| The other point would be is that derivatives can provide
| low pass filtering. The "high frequency" components of
| "CPU usage" are not useful to me.
| mixmastamyk wrote:
| Sorting by mem usage will show the big apps which 99% of
| the time will also be the ones using cpu time. Still, this
| trick is neat.
| kodra wrote:
| Why do you feel stupid? There is absolutely zero
| discoverability.
|
| But you should've probably discovered View -> Update Speed :)
| 2devnull wrote:
| I've always enjoyed trying to click the moving apps, like a
| little video game I get to play to break up the monotony of my
| computing adventure.
| robotnikman wrote:
| So many times this feature would have come in handy for me, glad
| to find out about it!
| usrbinbash wrote:
| > Microsoft is working on a force quit option to close apps
| without the Task Manager in Windows
|
| It always amazes me how things that have been standard features
| in Linux Desktop environments, usually for a long time, are big
| news in the Windows world.
| bozhark wrote:
| Apples to Androids
| devnullbrain wrote:
| It's a necessary development: it's tough for Microsoft
| employees to get their work done when programs keep on crashing
| Explorer.exe and then Task Manager becomes unresponsive too.
|
| Hopefully they'll run into some friction using NTFS so we can
| start modifying files that are in use.
| drsopp wrote:
| I miss user manuals.
| gsuuon wrote:
| I really wish filtering could optionally include matching
| processes' children
| denysonique wrote:
| The equivalent in htop is Shift+Z
| TRiG_Ireland wrote:
| The problem with htop is that it's a normal program, so when
| your computer's freezing you can't start htop. The Task Manager
| is the one thing I miss from Windows. No matter what kind of
| broken state the computer was in, you could always start the
| Task Manager.
| usrbinbash wrote:
| > No matter what kind of broken state the computer was in,
| you could always start the Task Manager.
|
| The only thing that can prevent me from accessing htop, is a
| kernel panic.
|
| Because, even if the Desktop Environment crashes or freezes
| (Can't even remember the last time that happened), I can
| always switch to another virtual console with Ctrl+Meta+F2,
| login and run any program from there, including starting
| another DE instance.
|
| And in the equivalent of a kernel panic in windows (BSOD),
| the Task Manager is inaccessible as well.
| actuallyalys wrote:
| I don't think it is quite as reliable as the task manager but
| on some (most?) Linux distributions you can use control-alt
| plus function keys to switch away from the graphical user
| interface to one of the ttys. Some issues affecting your
| display or window manager can be fixed that way.
| thangngoc89 wrote:
| Thanks. It's a real struggle to kill the process you really
| want when it keeps jumping.
| WithinReason wrote:
| Maybe it's trying to escape
| pluijzer wrote:
| First thing I did when opening the comments was searching for
| 'htop', I was sure somebody would teach me how to do it there.
| It did not disappoint. I was always annoyed by it, never
| occurred to me to look for a solution.
| gagged_s_poster wrote:
| [dead]
| omnibrain wrote:
| And if you want to kill a specific task, you don't have to "right
| click->end task", you can instead just press "del".
| jmlim00 wrote:
| Neat, but then I need to move my right hand off of the mouse.
| My go to is Alt + E
| wruza wrote:
| Or they could, you know, put a play/pause button somewhere in the
| ui.
|
| If discovered myself, and knowing what Windows is, I'd rather
| think that pressing Ctrl simply breaks the WindowProc somehow
| than assuming it's its intentional function.
| somat wrote:
| view / update speed / paused
| vxNsr wrote:
| Did this once, then forgot and then was very confused why it
| would only update if I held down f5. Took like a week for me
| to remember/realize.
| zwieback wrote:
| Wow, my life was a lie! I always sort by name and then scroll but
| will adopt this now.
| tgv wrote:
| Sorting, then filtering by name was my goto.
| naikrovek wrote:
| how do you _filter_ in Task Manager?
| xnyan wrote:
| It's a feature of the latest version of task manager. I
| don't know of any way to do it with the win10 task manager,
| but you can always "Get-Process | Out-GridView" which will
| present a GUI process info table with sorting and a filter.
| zwieback wrote:
| Also, tasklist and taskkill work for the most common use
| of killing zombie processes and you don't have to learn
| powershell
| hospitalJail wrote:
| Too late, I already switched to linux.
|
| It was death by 100 cuts, and the opaque memory management was
| one of the cuts. I'd say 1 drive hijacking your file system was
| 100 cuts. Cortana, in-menu candy crush ads/ragebait news, auto
| reboot, edge default opening links, more cuts.
| cam_l wrote:
| Yeah, I switched too, but the task manager I use now is a bit
| of a letdown compared to windows.
|
| It always shows the same processes, just the base os and the
| apps I installed and expressly start or autostart. There are no
| new obscurely named processes constantly popping up after every
| update. There are no rogue processes using 90% cpu, no
| programmes hanging and crashing the window manager.
|
| It's just all so predictable and.. well, boring. I almost miss
| the excitement of never quite knowing what I would find in the
| window task manager.
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