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I wonder what portion of users doesn't even know that you can/should quit mac application when you no longer use them. I frequently see people with dozens of ac
by captainmuon 10y ago
I wonder what portion of users doesn't even know that you can/should quit mac application when you no longer use them. I frequently see people with dozens of active applications in their dock.
This is the converse of the situation on Android. I know many people who close android apps (by swiping them away in the app switcher) because they are afraid they will run in the background.
- ovao 10y agoShould users quit running applications? Given a generally large amount of memory available (due to its low cost), and OS application paging, I'm not so sure. The only reason I ever quit a running application on any modern OS is due to old habits that have died hard and a tired model of thinking ("I'm probably low on memory so I should kill this process"), or because the process itself is misbehaving. Correctly-behaving applications generally don't need to be terminated.