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

biglyburrito

More info: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/dave-plumme...

gruez

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

DetroitThrow

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?

deepthaw

an appimage to get a too complicated version of top?

SG-

from the Dave Plummer wiki: 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

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.

john_strinlai

"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".

timeoperator

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

svobodamartin

Is it vibecoded?

walrus01

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

EricFrost

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

dundarious

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

yannoninator

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.

yipinwong

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

KronisLV

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

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