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I miss taskmgr so much on Linux/macOS. Everything in taskmgr feels so logical and manageable without extra steps.
I feel the complete opposite, interestingly enough. Apple process viewer and htop are what I want.
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Windows has somewhat stripped down versions of the same kind of commandline process management: tasklist | findstr chrome.exe taskkill /IM chrome.exe /F taskkill /PID /F
Some people dislike windows but haven’t experienced modern niceties like powershell I doesn’t totally suck
At the end of a week's work, I had a script which worked on my system, but blew up on the production systems it was intended for, and although we eventually worked around the stupid problem I want nothing further to do with that work. I co-own the far larger C# project it's associated with despite never having written C# a year ago, C# feels like a nice but slightly boring modern language, I probably wouldn't choose to write it for pleasure, but I don't hate getting paid to do so. However I seriously regret assuming that it was worth writing the "obviously just a script" part in Powershell rather than wrapping it all in C# and having the "script" just run that.
So, maybe it "doesn't totally suck" but it sure does suck pretty badly.
I usually end up using the up/down keys to select the right process, looking at the Task Manager in the tiny preview that pops up while Alt+Tab is pressed. It is extremely annoying. I wish Ctrl+Alt+Del could open the Task Manager in the foreground...
People really got deep into their work back then.
A 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.
> If Task Manager ever becomes internally corrupted, kill/close it. Restart it while holding down CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT, and Task Manager will reset ALL internal settings to factory fresh if it sees that key combo at startup. Same works for every app I've written, btw, I think!
In this day and age (Windows 10), every time I have to use Task Manager it's because a fullscreen game has crashed, and I usually can't see Task Manager at all. It opens behind the fullscreen game and doesn't come to the foreground, even when I alt+tab. I usually end up using the up/down keys to select the right process, looking at the Task Manager in the tiny preview that pops up while Alt+Tab is pressed. It is extr…
In this day and age (Windows 10), every time I have to use Task Manager it's because a fullscreen game has crashed, and I usually can't see Task Manager at all. It opens behind the fullscreen game and doesn't come to the foreground, even when I alt+tab. I usually end up using the up/down keys to select the right process, looking at the Task Manager in the tiny preview that pops up while Alt+Tab is pressed. It is extr…
You may try Windows key + D to hide the desktop or Windows key + M to minimize all windows.
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.
- Can't display both CPU and memory in one view, by default
It can be tweaked, but I don't like the extra steps.