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One of the things that led me to leave Windows for MacOS is that force quit actually works on the Mac, every single time. On windows I found getting tasks to a
by andrewstuart 3y ago
One of the things that led me to leave Windows for MacOS is that force quit actually works on the Mac, every single time.
On windows I found getting tasks to actually quit was always unreliable, often they’d hang around even after sending multiple force quit requests.
Recently I tried windows again thinking this might have been fixed, but it’s still as unreliable as ever.
- nullindividual 3y agoOn Windows, macOS, Linux, and likely many others, this is a universal issue as some requests cannot be killed/cancelled [immediately]. For example: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5642/what-if-kill-9-does-not-work https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5642/what-if-kill-9...
- AnotherGoodName 3y agoI've seen the spinning beach ball of death enough times to refute this :)