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  • Well, you can’t expect the whole net of dependency to be torn down that quickly when it took decades to be established. Especially if you want a somewhat normal life.

    Even before the latest acceleration into fascism I kept looking for alternatives of almost everything I use and the pain is something I’ve just got used to when it started with switching to Linux only over 20 years ago. Of course I still get envious when iPhone users just quickly AirDrop some pics, so I get why it’s not always easy to switch to alternatives.

    But alternatives exist. Exploring them has become a lot more mainstream and they get more funding and support.



  • Right. Sigterm should always be the first choice as a process may have the chance to handle that signal, free resources, save data etc. Sigkill pulls the rug out under it, which is a last resort, but may be necessary if the process can’t handle sigterm in reasonable time.

    So the meme basically shows these two signals, both Windows and different Linux distributions have different ways to when they send each signal and how the user can use them.