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Meanwhile at Microsoft (europe.pub)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 32 points 11 months ago (11 children)

How the hell do you fuck up the task manager, an application that hasn't needed to be touched in decades? At best, you stick a new skin over it to match the aesthetic. The core functionality of the task manager should have remained untouched going back to... What, Windows 3.0?

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    I really don't agree with this comment seeing how useful task manager has gotten over the years. It used to be pretty simple process explorer, but has evolved into almost a full fledged resource monitor. The only thing that feels like missing now is afterburner-like overlay in games.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    The only thing that feels like missing now is afterburner-like overlay in games.

    There are a thousand applications that provide such an overlay, one is already built into Windows, do you really need yet another?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    And temperature?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    And fps... Frametimes... Recordable graphs... Power... Voltages... Amps... Task manager is a baby compared to serious monitoring apps. But the main purpose is not monitoring ig, it's fine as it is.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Never really needed that since I built my own rig, do maintenance and trust my build. Never had problems with temps, even during prolonged stresstesting

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    When I used to be on Windows, I shifted to Process Explorer. It is developed by Microsoft only I guess as part of their Sysinternals suite. I think it retains an older style UI but is significantly more powerful (has/d virus total integration for one).

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