I hate apps that don't close when you close them, and you have to go through a bunch of sub menus to shut them down, or confirm it multiple times.. I also hate when apps have taskbar icons for absolutely no reason. It's a big peeve of mine

Whatever you do, don’t tell this person about macOS.

It took somebody showing me to finally understand what was going on when I first used one back in college

I'm looking at you music players. If I click that red x it doesn't mean hide in the flipping volume control on the taskbar and keep playing!

There are legitimate reasons to keep a background task around, like SyncThing. There are illegitimate reasons too, like Discord.

Had a gen z coworker once who was a little mind-blown when I pointed out that the squeaky boots episode of SpongeBob is just "The Tell-Tale Heart." Usually any time I've tried to share that fun fact, anyone who's already familiar with both stories has already connected the dots. It was pretty fun to witness the "holy shit it IS the same story" realization in real time.

"THE BOOTS!"

Or like teams and fucking edge for some reason. Quality memory hogs

ahem... Steam

It’s just a different mindset, it has been that way since system 7.

With a modern macOS, you just look for the little dot in the dock or use command-tab to switch through and quit what you don’t want running.

Whereas my system is full of daemons and zombies, just the way I like it

I'm good with steam running in the background for updates and whatnot but discord needs to quit their shit when I close it.

I am familiar with the telltale heart, but not squeaky boots episode. However, I can gather that squidward likely was going fucking insane because SpongeBob had squeaky boots.

This bullshit started with skype™ back in the day of windows vista.

Millennial here who never connected the dots. Thank you!

Oh, right, because Steam updates every day for some reason?

Very close. It's actually Mr. Krabs that the boots are driving nuts in that one.

I have like 3 dozen games installed so there are updates frequently enough that I am good with it doing its thing.

Plus I get the little popup when a friend starts a game so we can join up.

Pretty sure there is an option to close it for real when you close the window, so it is a choice.

It started before Skype or Windows Vista ever existed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuGjtlsKo4s

Steam for example.

I was thinking of exactly steam as I was writing this haha :3

Steam with its memory-hogging chromium instance that still runs when the window is ”closed”.

For anyone using macOS, Vorssaint is a lifesaver.

It has a number of “fixes” for macOS, including quit on close, clipboard access, per-app volume control, and many more.

I want some apps to minimize to tray rather than close, but it should absolutely be an option in the prefs.

I've had to use mac for work for the last few years and, when I got it, I was super confused. Well, I still am (or angry) generally, but y'know.

Killing Skype was harder than killing old yeller

My newer computer you can't even well tell what programs are using what cpu because task manager is now nearly worthless now. I imagine it's on purpose given the enshitification of everything especially tech.

I'm fine with apps having this functionality. It's the fact that it's the default behavior that I hate 😭

Oh im even one more step further, I don't mind that the functionality exists, or that it's the default behaviour, but.. the amount of stuff that doesn't have the option to disable that behaviour, now that gets me riled up

Is this some kind of windows joke I'm too kill -9
to understand?

macOS 27 now has a thing where if you quit an app (actually quit with cmd+q, not just close the window with the red button) it will stay in the Dock labelled "running in background" if sneakily keeps running.

Even in Win 10. Computer is chugging > open task manager > sort CPU by highest to lowest > top 3 programs are using ~60% CPU then it plummets to 0.1% CPU usage for the rest of the list.
Yes, i am sure that i have 40,000 programs running at 0.1%...