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Linux gets frozen, what do you do? I remember to press nine buttons on my keyboard, duh. and why? Because a hard reset will "make you a lot of problems?" I am n
by jedanbik 13y ago
Linux gets frozen, what do you do? I remember to press nine buttons on my keyboard, duh. and why? Because a hard reset will "make you a lot of problems?" I am not convinced, and I am not impressed.
This is a laughably awful shortcut for anything. Why make the supposedly safe stuff so out of reach? I would have to use a separate computer to look up how to type this command. Even if I knew the command off the top of my head, what if my keyboard lacks a PrtSc (SysRq) button?
When folks are pointing to Windows for design cues, the open source community ought to reconsider some aspects of how it has implemented certain features.
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- clarry 13y agoHow do you perform the equivalent operations on Windows?
- jedanbik 13y agoIt isn't equivalent, but it is approximate; folks were mentioning ctrl-alt-dlt. Three keys instead of nine keys represents a 66% increase in efficiency.
- clarry 13y agoI would've said it was approximate enough in whe Windows 3.1 days when it could perform a soft reboot. But since Windows 2000, it has had completely different functionality (sometimes allowing you to log in, sometimes giving you a process manager oslt), not even remotely approximate to the magic sysrq sequence presented here. Do tell me if this has changed since Windows Vista. Linux, by the way, can also respond to Ctrl-alt-del, and depending on the desktop it might perform functions similar to Windows.