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> It's little things like errors automatically prompting you to open a graphical debugger or processes being grouped by application.

I think after Windows 7 the processes are grouped per application in Task Manager. We’re all grumpy about the redesigns of things we are familiar with, but little UX improvements happen all the time.

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> I think after Windows 7 the processes are grouped per application in Task Manager. We’re all grumpy about the redesigns of things we are familiar with, but little UX improvements happen all the time.

You're right; I was mostly thinking about problems with Linux since thats my daily driver. It would have been better to say that Haiku gives developers the same UX affordances for interacting with their system as non-technical users.

When using Linux I'm frustrated by an overall lack of UX, but when using Windows/Mac it's developer specific UX that's ignored.

FWIW, as with the Task Manager thing, the thing about launching the graphical debugger on crashes was added to Windows eons ago. Even Windows 9x had it, contemporaneously with BeOS. If you had a debugger installed, a "Debug" button would appear between "Close" and "Details". Debug assertion failures will pop up a dialog from the C runtime allowing you to break into the debugger there, too.

Huh, TIL. Thanks.

Not the Details tab, though, and the name of the executable is shown there. The tree view in Process Explorer (shipped with Sysinternals) is the best of both worlds.

I wanted to point to FOSS (GPL3) alternative ProcessHacker [1] which I'm using for years, and found out that their github link [2] now redirects to systeminformer [3], looks like repo rebranding, wasn't able to find it mentioned anywhere though.

[1]: https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/

[2]: https://github.com/processhacker/processhacker/

[3]: https://github.com/winsiderss/systeminformer/

Thanks, I knew about Process Hacker but not System Informer. It's all a bit weird: the download page for System Informer only lists Process Hacker binaries, for "legacy operating systems", while there are no binaries yet for "supported operating systems".

I wish they would just put ProcessExplorer there instead...

process explorer is a lot too much for an average Windows user, I would think. it's dead easy to obtain if you want it, though.

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