I miss taskmgr so much on Linux/macOS. Everything in taskmgr feels so logical and manageable without extra steps.
Task manager still launches through Wine, but it only let's you control Windows processes running on your machine.
I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
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Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#42I miss taskmgr so much on Linux/macOS. Everything in taskmgr feels so logical and manageable without extra steps.
Sysinternal process explorer is the ultimate taskmgr for Windows, for example you can see the threads for each process, and even their call stacks! When a file can’t be deleted because it’s open in a process but you can’t find which one, you can even search into memory for all processes and find the culprit in 3 seconds. Or see what files / reg keys a process has currently open and even force-close them… give it a try and you’ll never come back.
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#43> There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill
Except Defender/Malware Protection...
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#44> There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill Except Defender/Malware Protection...
And nowadays I don't think it can kill assistant/Cortana.
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I also used to be linux nerd but as I grow old I find such thing uninteresting. I wish for simple interface where I can kill process, view cpu use etc. In htop its like 3-4 steps to send kill signal which I don't like. And task manager is easy to access to like right click on task bar and click on task manager or Ctrl + Alt + Del. Also searching is generally not hard in task manager, you can just type process name an…
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Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#46A good reminder that holding down shift+ctrl+alt isn't always a harmless no-op.
It definitely isn't. Some linux distributions just restart without confirmation, if you try to invoke a task manager like you would on windows.
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#47> There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill Except Defender/Malware Protection...
And nowadays I don't think it can kill assistant/Cortana.
Come on, I get that everyone hates Cortana, but why spread such FUD? Of course it can kill Cortana as it's a regular user-space app.
The only Windows processes I see it can't kill are labeled System, System Interrupts, Secure System and Registry which I guess, are all kernel-space.
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#48> There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill Except Defender/Malware Protection...
>Except Defender/Malware Protection...
I just checked and it can definitely kill malware protection so I don't know where you got that information but it's false.
And even without checking, being able to disable malware protection is a necessary feature in any OS, for SW development and debugging activities, so I would assume malware protection could be easily killed without a problem by the user with admin privileges.
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#49Dave 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
I watched a few videos of him and I am just watching this video > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNy2PO3K4MQ
Wow....I always thought he was recording those videos from his bedroom and wanted to spice things up with tacky RGBs. Wow.......wow....
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
And nowadays I don't think it can kill assistant/Cortana.
Come on, I get that everyone hates Cortana, but why spread such FUD? Of course it can kill Cortana as it's a regular user-space app. The only Windows processes I see it can't kill are labeled System, System Interrupts, Secure System and Registry which I guess, are all kernel-space.
It would be ironic if you tried to kill Cortana and it said "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
But yes I don't see why it couldn't (or why MS would add such a high-level protection to Cortana)