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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's so dumb, but okay.

Edit: dumb that using the shortcut to open the task manager doesn't interrupt the system. That's what ctrl-alt-del did before windows 8 or whenever, open the task manager regardless of what was happening. Now I have to use that annoying lock-screen menu to open the task manager to kill processes if things are locked up. Didn't know that, horribly unintuitive

[–] force@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

how is it dumb? literally just press ctrl shift esc

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

If your computer is locked up, you have to use ctrl-alt-del, with its menu of options including the task manager, in order to interrupt the current processes locking up the system.

Using ctrl-shift-esc launches the task manager program without a system interrupt, meaning it won't unlock the computer. Which is dumb, because why else would I be opening the task manager other than to interrupt some out-of-control process? I guess you could be using it to monitor or something else, but that's what I'm used to opening the task manager to be doing. I didn't even realize this until this comment.

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I use task manager way more often for monitoring than I use it for stopping processes.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I check ram and cpu usage and change startup apps or task priority just as much as I need to force quit.

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 10 months ago

When i was using windows i killed programs quite regularly with ctrl shift esc. I didn't need a full system interrupt but the programs weren't completely out if control.

[–] force@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

then just press ctrl alt del if you want a system interrupt??? there's a reason they have bindings for both. it's not much harder, the task manager doesn't exist solely for killing some program that won't respond.