I miss taskmgr so much on Linux/macOS. Everything in taskmgr feels so logical and manageable without extra steps.
The whole Sysinternals Process Utilities[1] is a goldmine worth bookmarking for any windows power user, and the quality of the tools is great.
The only thing I don't understand is why they aren't shipped by default with every windows installation. They're so useful and no bloat, it boggles my mind why they're not there by default.
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...
At a guess it would mean they would have to support the suite at that version for the lifespan of the OS. Having it separate allows them to update independently and not get tied down 10 years down the line with still having to support and old code base.
This is one of the biggest reasons why pwsh (PowerShell 6+) still hasn't been included in box. There is no .NET version that is supported for the time that is required by Windows and thus cannot be included in box.
What op said is true for me, I just pop open task manager and I get all the insight I need. No issues there. I don’t ever need to run htop locally, but is key factor in deployments where there are many more cores, accelerator config, etc
I use Mac for some UI projects or systems dev.
I’m usually in a bad mood when I have to open activity monitor.
- Can't display both CPU and memory in one view, by default
It can be tweaked, but I don't like the extra steps.
goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-taskmanager
sudo apt install mate-system-monitor
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
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.
tasklist | findstr chrome.exe
taskkill /IM chrome.exe /F
taskkill /PID <pid> /FI 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.