Rant warning!

I mean I just quit a office call, the share screen ribbon wouldn't disappear, opened task manager to kill it nope not found, finally had to select a "quit teams" option from start window. Note this is still windows 10.

Further the entire teams app is sloppy, when I start listing, the enter works but within the same message (when unintended) I have to ensure I click shift+enter to enter a new line. I can't choose between enter and shift+enter.

A few questions now:

  • why/how do these guys design a product this way
  • Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn't appear on my task manager?
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

If you mean PowerShell, it's just text scripts that run sorta like programs. I don't think many scripts are used in Windows or in apps, outside of sysadmin stuff and sometimes app installers, so idk where you're seeing them.

However, PowerShell uses the extension ‘ps1’. ‘ps’ is PostScript, which is a page layout format similar to PDF and in fact the precursor to it.

Neither of these are related to svchost. PowerShell scripts typically run start to end in one go and don't hang out in the background (though in theory they can).

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I meant the process command on linux, or 'PS' in short. I am not very literate with OS concepts but wouldn't be bad to explore

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Ah, well, ps is one program that is Unixes' analog to the task manager. htop shows the same info dynamically and with pretty colors.

    I won't explain their output here, there are plenty of tutorials and explainers on the web. Just gonna say that in Unixes, background services, including system ones, run under their own names instead of anything like svchost — i.e. a proper separate program starts and keeps in the background, so you can see it in ps or another system monitor. (Although in theory nothing prevents there being an svchost with the same approach as in Windows, but Linux distros don't provide one for lack of necessity.)

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