• biofaust@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Two weeks in switching from Windows to Linux and I never once needed to use the equivalent of Task Manager.

    It may well have been beginner’s optimism, but still, it did feel strange, so strange indeed that I started wondering whether Linux Mint even had one and I got promptly reassured in my perception by the fact that instead of being named Task Manager (you act with it), it is named System Monitor (you observe with it).

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    1 day ago

    Note some viruses monitor for task manager and will kill themselves if it is opened, then retrigger once it is closed. So if this is happening a lot then may want to look into that

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      20 hours ago

      I’m pretty sure Cortana did that. And that LLM shit that took its place now does the same.

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        17 hours ago

        Those sure do sound like viruses.

    • can
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      24 hours ago

      Can I just leave it open?

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      1 day ago

      My work laptop has been xibiting thus behaviour. I’m trying to decide ic it’s a virus or incompetent it

      Either way I don’t have admin and can’t influence the fix

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    23 hours ago

    I read that Windows reserves the excess CPU capacity, so when you open task manager it goes from 100% to whatever is actually being used. The strange thing is the PC seems a lot less stressed when I leave task manager open.