• Muddybulldog@mylemmy.winEnglish
    3 years

    Somebody needs to find whoever was responsible for the original NT task manager and learn a thing or two. That thing was bulletproof. I had servers over the years that were so broken nothing else would run but you hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and tada!

    • TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.world
      3 years

      David Plummer, he has a YouTube channel “Dave’s garage” he has a couple of videos dedicated to Taskmanager and even a look at the source for his first version. That and other cool stuff on windows and other tech.

      • PlutoParty@programming.dev
        3 years

        One of his videos about task manager is one of those YouTube videos that just won’t go away from being suggested for me.

        • TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.world
          3 years

          Yeah, me to, so I decided to finally watch it and decided his channel is pretty interesting. Sure he’s pretty ‘microsofty’ (i.e. not seeing any faults in the company) but other than that he presents his topics well.

    • ytrav@lemmy.world
      3 years

      for the love of god, for the past 27 years it’s been ctrl-shift-esc (since like NT 4.0), while ctrl-alt-del opens up the security menu thing. I can’t believe I’m saying this…

      i thought programmers liked doing things faster

      • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.winEnglish
        3 years

        CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is simply a keyboard shortcut and is useless on a locked up system, it dies with the shell. CTRL+ALT+DEL throws a hardware interrupt, which contributed to the aforementioned bulletproof nature.

  • Speiser0@feddit.de
    3 years

    Steps to fix:

    • Shut down your pc.
    • Install a proper OS, i.e. a linux distribution.
    • Be happy.
      • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
        3 years

        Real talk though, how long ago was that? Linux has been making improvements at a blistering pace. If it’s been a while, I’d recommend giving it another try soon.

          • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
            3 years

            Fair enough. I appreciate you for trying it again every so often and not just holding a grudge because of a bad experience 5 or 10 years ago. I have faith it’ll “get there” eventually. For some of us it has, but there is obviously a ways to go before it has the ability to grab everyone. :P

              • tetrahedron@programming.dev
                3 years

                For game dev, try Pop OS. it has Nvidia support out of the box. Game dev has always been an issue because either card support is minimal or manufacturer just didn t care about ux for linux despite community plea (,unity s font issue)

              • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
                3 years

                I have used manjaro before and liked it a lot. Currently I’m running Garuda, but I have never used vanilla Arch so I’m honestly not 100% sure what extra Garuda brings to the table outside of a pre-customized ui and some “helper” apps - install went butter smooth and updates have been a breeze and I think that is thanks to Garuda specificly.

                Personally a big fan of KDE plasma. The DE in popos was my biggest detractor but that’s just personal preference. It also probably helps that I’m on an all AMD system.

  • TomMasz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 years

    You have no tasks, there’s nothing to manage. I’d say you’re done for the day.

  • iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
    3 years

    What’s the point of even “modernising” task manager?

    Normies that would care about task manager being too ugly probably don’t know it even exists.

    There goes the last dependable program that Windows had to offer

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      3 years

      Okay, I don’t think Gentoo is the best OS for beginners

      But

      I think people new to computers (yes, I mean kids) should be handed a computer booted off a gentoo image with the handbook and wiki.