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The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

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biglyburrito 1mo ago
More info: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/dave-plummer-task-manager-creator-new-version-cyberpunk-mac-windows https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/dave-plumme...
- CarbonNanotubes 1mo ago
  Windows support is here. I am running it on Windows right now. That article was from two weeks ago. Linux is also available
  - biglyburrito 1mo ago
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gruez 1mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477269
DetroitThrow 1mo ago
Wow, thought the guy would be a MSFT OG but this looks like it sucks? Vibed, closed source, paid extensions.. Why on earth would anyone use this?
- bobsmooth 1mo ago
  Too colorful for you?
  - DetroitThrow 1mo ago
    I don't mind color, the glow effects just hurt the ability to read what's there (this reminds me of the gaming setups teenagers are drawn to)...but there's no reason a utility like a task manager should be closed source or have a pro version.
- mikestew 1mo ago
  Why on earth would anyone use this? Because they use a screen reader and don't know any better. And remember, the state of Washington sued the author for some very good reasons. I wouldn't let his stuff anywhere near my machines.
- ndiddy 1mo ago
  He kind of fell off. He left Microsoft to found a scam company called "SoftwareOnline.com" that used ads to trick people into downloading fake anti-virus software. The software didn't do anything besides show the user nag messages about fictional security threats that could only be addressed by buying the full version, and could not be fully uninstalled. See https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s-office-sues-settles-washington-based-softwareonlinecom https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...
  - walrus01 1mo ago
    Meanwhile, the creators and maintainers of linux 'btop' haven't scammed anyone or been sued by any state AGs. Shocking, I know! It's almost as if you can write a system status monitor application without doing anything shady.
  - tavavex 1mo ago
    Being the Task Manager Guy became his whole brand. Any time he's brought up, the Task Manager topic is sure to follow. No wonder he's doing more Task Managers. It's so pervasive it's kind of funny.
deepthaw 1mo ago
an appimage to get a too complicated version of top?
- bigyabai 1mo ago
  Seems like a gaudier version of Resources[0] with a paid Pro version. It's times like this where I'm grateful for FOSS. [0] https://apps.gnome.org/Resources/ https://apps.gnome.org/Resources/
- esseph 1mo ago
  Yeah, and top is a crunch. Real men visually parse /proc/ output in realtime.
SG- 1mo ago
from the Dave Plummer wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer "Plummer left Microsoft in 2003[10] to start his own company, SoftwareOnline LLC, a software vendor. Plummer claimed that the company went on to sell millions of copies of first and third party utilities software for Windows.[16] In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield". SoftwareOnline agreed to pay $150,000 in civil penalties, plus $250,000 that was ultimately suspended following compliance with all terms in the settlement, as well as $40,000 in legal fees.[6] He also founded Xeriton Corporation during this period, whose major product was the Blue Phone technical support service.[17] In December 2009, Xeriton was sold to Support.com for $8.5 million.[18]"
jordand 1mo ago
For working with processes and software development on Windows, this replacement looks useless. I use Sysinternals Process Explorer daily at work, and that'll continue being immensely useful.
- iKlsR 1mo ago
  Checkout https://taskslinger.net/ https://taskslinger.net/ instead, replaced my default with this for a few months now
  - jordand 1mo ago
    Then you've been ripped off as Sysinternals Process Explorer is essentially the same thing but free
    - iKlsR 1mo ago
      Ripped off with using a free tool to do basic task management and get better viz than default TM? To each their own, I've used SPE and I much prefer TS for my simple needs.
- taiiat 1mo ago
  You might find some interest in System Informer, a sort of spiritual successor to Process Explorer!
john_strinlai 1mo ago
"Every core, honestly", "Not just used. Accounted for.", "More signal. Less hunting.", "Your machine. Your phosphor." anyways, after scrolling through all of that stuff, it is not clear to me what the benefit of using this over normal task manager (or sysinternals tools) is, other than themes i guess? perhaps it is better than whatever the native task management program is on mac? "lots of words. not much substance".
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- mikestew 1mo ago
  perhaps it is better than whatever the native task management program is on Mac? Activity Monitor works well enough for me. But, damn, I'd rather visually parse top all day before I'd resign myself to gaze upon that hideous mess.
  - walrus01 1mo ago
    Macports also provides htop , for the CLI folks.
- ntstatusquo 1mo ago
  Nothing wrong with using AI for software development, but your product landing page being chock full of LLM-isms is an honest signal about how much care was put into this project. Also, it somehow, bafflingly, against all odds, manages to use 60% more memory and 3x as much CPU as the underwhelming XAML task manager that comes with windows. How about we figure out how to use fewer resources, rather than way more resources, than the already unreasonably inefficient thing that Microsoft ships? Also, I find it funny that this TMOG thing seems to apply a special rule such that its own process does not appear in the dashboards by default.
timeoperator 1mo ago
It’s so ugly that it looks like one of those fake antivirus interfaces.
- xattt 1mo ago
  It doesn’t even have a photo of Peter Norton with folder arms.
  - walrus01 1mo ago
    Best we can do is neon vector art of John McAfee holding a crack pipe
    - kyleee 1mo ago
      RIP in peace John. Is there a burial site in Belize or somewhere else the public can visit?
- lxe 1mo ago
  [dead]
- john_strinlai 1mo ago
  funny you should say that, given the history of the creator (dave plummer)
- nilsherzig 1mo ago
  checks out: > In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer#:~:text=16%5D-,In,InternetShield%22%2E https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer#:~:text=16%5D-,In...
svobodamartin 1mo ago
Is it vibecoded?
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- krapp 1mo ago
  Of course it is. Why would you even bother to ask? https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-veterans-vibe-coded-task-manager-now-also-runs-on-mac-and-linux-downloadable-app-is-the-result-of-a-107-page-spec-fed-to-claude-code https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-vetera...
walrus01 1mo ago
Metaphorically, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
EricFrost 1mo ago
This seems like a good place for me to share TaskPilot, which shows you and lets you manage everything running in the background on Linux. Services, SystemD timers, cron, autostart, ports in use, snaps, containers, mounts, and more https://github.com/eric-frost/taskpilot https://github.com/eric-frost/taskpilot
- walrus01 1mo ago
  Would love to see this as a signed Debian package in stable, testing and unstable. Looks very useful.
dundarious 1mo ago
I don't use Windows at the moment, but have heard good things about this alternative, which is "Handmade" affiliated: https://taskslinger.net/ https://taskslinger.net/
- pivo 1mo ago
  Looks like it supports macOS and Linux as well.
  - dundarious 1mo ago
    But TaskSlinger is not.
yannoninator 1mo ago
Saved you a click, it is AI slop garbage. Why do we need to tolerate this vibe coded slop? We need a marker on posts which are complete AI generated rubbish. What happened to the profession of software engineering? The craft and quality has been thrown out of the window in pursuit of slop. We are disrespecting our own profession by turning the software we build into fast food junk where nobody wants anything we make and nobody cares about the quality and craft of creating software. We are just building the same things repeatedly over and over again with nothing inventive or new, wasting engineering and the users time in the process. AI has just shown how unimaginative some engineers are in choosing what problems in software to build and solve. We need to do way better.
- walrus01 1mo ago
  Feature suggestion to dang for a [slop] clickable next to [flag].
yipinwong 1mo ago
I don't see a single compelling reason to use this over built-in one.
KronisLV 1mo ago
It would be okay if it were a bit less AI slop in regards to prose, had more conventional fonts and also removed the obnoxious glow effects. Then again, personal opinion.
MistaIA 1mo ago
Not being anti-supportive, I wanted to try it, but... My laptop just crashed after launching it.

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More info: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/dave-plummer-task-manager-creator-new-version-cyberpunk-mac-windows https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/dave-plumme...

CarbonNanotubes 1mo ago
Windows support is here. I am running it on Windows right now. That article was from two weeks ago. Linux is also available
- biglyburrito 1mo ago
  [dead]

gruez 1mo ago

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477269

DetroitThrow 1mo ago

Wow, thought the guy would be a MSFT OG but this looks like it sucks? Vibed, closed source, paid extensions.. Why on earth would anyone use this?

bobsmooth 1mo ago
Too colorful for you?
- DetroitThrow 1mo ago
  I don't mind color, the glow effects just hurt the ability to read what's there (this reminds me of the gaming setups teenagers are drawn to)...but there's no reason a utility like a task manager should be closed source or have a pro version.
mikestew 1mo ago
Why on earth would anyone use this? Because they use a screen reader and don't know any better. And remember, the state of Washington sued the author for some very good reasons. I wouldn't let his stuff anywhere near my machines.
ndiddy 1mo ago
He kind of fell off. He left Microsoft to found a scam company called "SoftwareOnline.com" that used ads to trick people into downloading fake anti-virus software. The software didn't do anything besides show the user nag messages about fictional security threats that could only be addressed by buying the full version, and could not be fully uninstalled. See https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s-office-sues-settles-washington-based-softwareonlinecom https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...
- walrus01 1mo ago
  Meanwhile, the creators and maintainers of linux 'btop' haven't scammed anyone or been sued by any state AGs. Shocking, I know! It's almost as if you can write a system status monitor application without doing anything shady.
- tavavex 1mo ago
  Being the Task Manager Guy became his whole brand. Any time he's brought up, the Task Manager topic is sure to follow. No wonder he's doing more Task Managers. It's so pervasive it's kind of funny.

deepthaw 1mo ago

an appimage to get a too complicated version of top?

bigyabai 1mo ago
Seems like a gaudier version of Resources[0] with a paid Pro version. It's times like this where I'm grateful for FOSS. [0] https://apps.gnome.org/Resources/ https://apps.gnome.org/Resources/
esseph 1mo ago
Yeah, and top is a crunch. Real men visually parse /proc/ output in realtime.

SG- 1mo ago

from the Dave Plummer wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer "Plummer left Microsoft in 2003[10] to start his own company, SoftwareOnline LLC, a software vendor. Plummer claimed that the company went on to sell millions of copies of first and third party utilities software for Windows.[16] In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield". SoftwareOnline agreed to pay $150,000 in civil penalties, plus $250,000 that was ultimately suspended following compliance with all terms in the settlement, as well as $40,000 in legal fees.[6] He also founded Xeriton Corporation during this period, whose major product was the Blue Phone technical support service.[17] In December 2009, Xeriton was sold to Support.com for $8.5 million.[18]"

jordand 1mo ago

For working with processes and software development on Windows, this replacement looks useless. I use Sysinternals Process Explorer daily at work, and that'll continue being immensely useful.

iKlsR 1mo ago
Checkout https://taskslinger.net/ https://taskslinger.net/ instead, replaced my default with this for a few months now
- jordand 1mo ago
  Then you've been ripped off as Sysinternals Process Explorer is essentially the same thing but free
  - iKlsR 1mo ago
    Ripped off with using a free tool to do basic task management and get better viz than default TM? To each their own, I've used SPE and I much prefer TS for my simple needs.
taiiat 1mo ago
You might find some interest in System Informer, a sort of spiritual successor to Process Explorer!

john_strinlai 1mo ago

"Every core, honestly", "Not just used. Accounted for.", "More signal. Less hunting.", "Your machine. Your phosphor." anyways, after scrolling through all of that stuff, it is not clear to me what the benefit of using this over normal task manager (or sysinternals tools) is, other than themes i guess? perhaps it is better than whatever the native task management program is on mac? "lots of words. not much substance".

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mikestew 1mo ago
perhaps it is better than whatever the native task management program is on Mac? Activity Monitor works well enough for me. But, damn, I'd rather visually parse top all day before I'd resign myself to gaze upon that hideous mess.
- walrus01 1mo ago
  Macports also provides htop , for the CLI folks.
ntstatusquo 1mo ago
Nothing wrong with using AI for software development, but your product landing page being chock full of LLM-isms is an honest signal about how much care was put into this project. Also, it somehow, bafflingly, against all odds, manages to use 60% more memory and 3x as much CPU as the underwhelming XAML task manager that comes with windows. How about we figure out how to use fewer resources, rather than way more resources, than the already unreasonably inefficient thing that Microsoft ships? Also, I find it funny that this TMOG thing seems to apply a special rule such that its own process does not appear in the dashboards by default.

timeoperator 1mo ago

It’s so ugly that it looks like one of those fake antivirus interfaces.

xattt 1mo ago
It doesn’t even have a photo of Peter Norton with folder arms.
- walrus01 1mo ago
  Best we can do is neon vector art of John McAfee holding a crack pipe
  - kyleee 1mo ago
    RIP in peace John. Is there a burial site in Belize or somewhere else the public can visit?
lxe 1mo ago
[dead]
john_strinlai 1mo ago
funny you should say that, given the history of the creator (dave plummer)
nilsherzig 1mo ago
checks out: > In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer#:~:text=16%5D-,In,InternetShield%22%2E https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer#:~:text=16%5D-,In...

svobodamartin 1mo ago

Is it vibecoded?

deleted 1mo ago
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krapp 1mo ago
Of course it is. Why would you even bother to ask? https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-veterans-vibe-coded-task-manager-now-also-runs-on-mac-and-linux-downloadable-app-is-the-result-of-a-107-page-spec-fed-to-claude-code https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-vetera...

walrus01 1mo ago

Metaphorically, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

EricFrost 1mo ago

This seems like a good place for me to share TaskPilot, which shows you and lets you manage everything running in the background on Linux. Services, SystemD timers, cron, autostart, ports in use, snaps, containers, mounts, and more https://github.com/eric-frost/taskpilot https://github.com/eric-frost/taskpilot

walrus01 1mo ago
Would love to see this as a signed Debian package in stable, testing and unstable. Looks very useful.

dundarious 1mo ago

I don't use Windows at the moment, but have heard good things about this alternative, which is "Handmade" affiliated: https://taskslinger.net/ https://taskslinger.net/

pivo 1mo ago
Looks like it supports macOS and Linux as well.
- dundarious 1mo ago
  But TaskSlinger is not.

yannoninator 1mo ago

Saved you a click, it is AI slop garbage. Why do we need to tolerate this vibe coded slop? We need a marker on posts which are complete AI generated rubbish. What happened to the profession of software engineering? The craft and quality has been thrown out of the window in pursuit of slop. We are disrespecting our own profession by turning the software we build into fast food junk where nobody wants anything we make and nobody cares about the quality and craft of creating software. We are just building the same things repeatedly over and over again with nothing inventive or new, wasting engineering and the users time in the process. AI has just shown how unimaginative some engineers are in choosing what problems in software to build and solve. We need to do way better.

walrus01 1mo ago
Feature suggestion to dang for a [slop] clickable next to [flag].

yipinwong 1mo ago

I don't see a single compelling reason to use this over built-in one.

KronisLV 1mo ago

It would be okay if it were a bit less AI slop in regards to prose, had more conventional fonts and also removed the obnoxious glow effects. Then again, personal opinion.

MistaIA 1mo ago

Not being anti-supportive, I wanted to try it, but... My laptop just crashed after launching it.