Yes yes, I REALLY want to terminate that process and I am very sure about it too, ty.

  • @mlg@lemmy.world
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    4625 days ago

    Actually no, it’s just that the programs on Linux usually accept SIGINT, SIGTERM, etc pretty gracefully. Some are even smart enough to handle it on a thread hang. SIGKILL is last resort.

    Lots of Windows applications like to ignore the close request because Windows doesn’t have signals and instead you can only pass a window name to request exit which is the same as clicking the close button.

    So any hung software won’t respond and you have to terminate it.