Programmer Humor

Ironically it's actually the opposite. Linux has signals, and with the exception of SIGKILL and I think SIGABRT they can all be handled gracefully. Windows on the other hand doesn't have signals, it can only TerminateProcess() which is forceful. The illusion of graceful termination on windows is done by sending a Window close message to all of the windows belonging to a given process, however in the event the process has no windows, only forceful termination is available due to the lack of a real mechanism to gracefully terminate processes. That's why the taskkill command tells you a process requires forceful termination when you run it against something headless.

While the meme is very funny, it is technically incorrect. Linux has two major ways of terminating a process. When Linux wants a process to terminate execution (for whatever reason) it first sends the SIGTERM signal to the process, which basically "asks" the process to terminate itself. This has the advantage, that the process gets the chance to save its state in a way, that the execution can continue at another time. If the process however ignores the SIGTERM signal at some point Linux will instead forcefully terminate the execution using the SIGKILL signal. This represents what the image shows.

Before someone gets mat at me: I know, that there are like 50 more Signals relevant to this, but wanted to keep it simple.

Graceful like closing a laptop and putting it in a backpack only to have windows refuse to shutdown and become a heater until it cooks the battery and ruins the screen....

/c/programmer_ignorance

Stop spreading this lie. Linux has a more graceful shutdown process than Windows ever did. It doesn't abruptly kill everything.

Isn't that what SIGTERM is? A request to gracefully shutdown processes.

Windows:

• program refuses to shutdown
• system: okay, guess you don't need your computer to turn off anyway

Windows task manager:

Let's play a whack a mole game where the app you're trying to kill constantly moves up and down a list by default! Enjoy!

Windows: If you can't exit gracefully, I'll make sure you never exit at all

Lol as we've discussed before, inaccurate but funny.

Windows treats user commands like most tech treats consent. Negotiable, ignorable.

Linux brooks no bullshit. The program will do as it is told.

I mean, also look at how windows installs programs. Its like a 100 step process taking several minutes, because just putting the files where they need to be is just too simple.

Or the uninstall program, cant just remove the files, no... Need to run full installer backwards to remove all the registry entries and even reboot the system to get rid of it all.

Oh sweet summer children.. its worse. Linux tells the program to kill itself, then makes sure it happens

Android/iOS users: What is “closing“? What is a „program“?

From what I've heard about Windows, it works more like the Simpsons "Barney coming up behind Moe" meme.

So, as it should be, Tux.

I get it windows is evil and bloated, blah blah blah.

But to hear some of you describe the problems that you have using windows makes me think that you're as incompetent as my grandmother.

Yup. Sometimes you like to fire a few shots manually just for fun.

In Linux you get zombie processes hanging around when things go wrong, and you can't get rid of those.