Comment by jtdev
6 years ago
> “ it's not faster than Windows , nor stabler”
Couldn’t disagree more; ctrl-alt-del gets a LOT of use on every Windows OS and client software combination I’ve ever used - I can’t even remember the equivalent hotkey on MacOS although it’s now been my daily driver for ~2 years of heavy use.
I have to force quit apps all the time on macOS. I'll admit I also routinely forget the key combination, but that's just because the Dock makes force quitting easy, and the Windows task bar does not (afaik).
Recent versions of Windows have gotten pretty good at identifying programs that aren't responding and offering to close them; it's gotten pretty rare that I actually have to open Task Manager to close a program. macOS, on the other hand, never offers to kill a hanging program-- it'll let an application beach ball for hours until you go out of your way to force quit it via the Dock or keyboard shortcut.
At any rate, the applications that make up most of my daily work are all really stable these days-- we've come a long way since the Classic MacOS and Windows 9x days where application (and OS) crashes and freezes were a daily occurence.
Cmd-Opt-Esc on a Mac is analogous to Ctrl-Shift-Esc on a Windows machine (Cmd-Alt-Del brings you back to the login page with a button to open task manager on post-Vista Windows PCs).
I don't remember using Ctrl+Alt+Del on any personal Windows machine either. It's the corporate client systems that make you use it for login. Heck on surface devices you don't even have to touch the keyboard to login :)
I haven't had the need to kill anything using task manager either so not sure what I would use CAD for.
Are you a time traveler? Ctrl-alt-del brings up task manager or the login dialog. While I do frequently have to shut down an application forcibly, I don't think I've had Windows itself crash in years. Or at least enough months I've forgotten about the last time.