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Dave also has his own YT channel full of "hidden" stories about old microsoft tech he worked on. Be sure to check him out, he's got quite a few good ones :) https://www.youtube.com/c/DavesGarage/videos
> Task Manager will load in reduced mode if resources are short, like only loading the Processes page if that's what's needed to get going. It's one of the very few apps that won't just "fail and bail" when things go wrong. This has saved me a few times, but every time I've seen it I always figured task manager was just failing to completely load. Glad to know that this was a deliberate state.
Is there a name for a process like this? Very interesting approach I want to take with future software.
I don't get it. Why isn't that localizable? You can write the numbers in either direction with it, can't you? What am I missing?
> Task Manager will load in reduced mode if resources are short, like only loading the Processes page if that's what's needed to get going. It's one of the very few apps that won't just "fail and bail" when things go wrong. This has saved me a few times, but every time I've seen it I always figured task manager was just failing to completely load. Glad to know that this was a deliberate state.
Is there a name for a process like this? Very interesting approach I want to take with future software.
> I initially drew the meters as 7-segment LEDs but that wasn't localizable to all cultures (How do you do a right-to-left reading 7-segment LED for Saudi Arabia?) so they only lasted for one version or so. I don't get it. Why isn't that localizable? You can write the numbers in either direction with it, can't you? What am I missing?
And there's also Thai numerals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_numerals .
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Windows, when it’s good, is actually great, and task manager is an example of good UI and functional backend. Linux just hasn’t built the same easy interface but of course it can do the same things, but no one has built the UI
I think it's a matter of getting used to. The task manager drives me mad. I never feel like I'm full control or know what's going on. Whereas with kill, ps, top and friends I feel like I can diagnose things a lot better. The task manager doesn't even seem to have a search bar, whereas I can just use "grep" in linux. Just right now I was trying to see if indeed it didn't have a search bar and task manager crashed when…
Also searching is generally not hard in task manager, you can just type process name and it should select it. Yes, it can be tricky sometime but most of time I use it to see process which consumes high cpu or internet bandwidth.
I do agree with GP, windows task manager is simple. If we need advance feature we can use process hacker etc.
I do agree with you too. So its just a matter of taste. But most user aren't nerd and they want something simple like task manager. My mom would simply refuse to use linux because she simply doesn't like cli interface.
I miss taskmgr so much on Linux/macOS. Everything in taskmgr feels so logical and manageable without extra steps.
What do you like about task manager compared to e.g. Activity Monitor? Activity Monitor has always seemed powerful and well-designed to me.
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Windows, when it’s good, is actually great, and task manager is an example of good UI and functional backend. Linux just hasn’t built the same easy interface but of course it can do the same things, but no one has built the UI
I think it's a matter of getting used to. The task manager drives me mad. I never feel like I'm full control or know what's going on. Whereas with kill, ps, top and friends I feel like I can diagnose things a lot better. The task manager doesn't even seem to have a search bar, whereas I can just use "grep" in linux. Just right now I was trying to see if indeed it didn't have a search bar and task manager crashed when…
tasklist | findstr chrome.exe
taskkill /IM chrome.exe /F
taskkill /PID /F