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The forsaken world of Windows Task Scheduler (ssg.dev)
metalcrow 2 hours ago [-]
I would say the user task scheduling is one of the things that linux actually does better then windows! (well, nowadays the list is a lot longer but pre windows 11 it was a few). Systemd services are really simple and quite easy to make, and just run a task like you'd expect.
sedatk 2 hours ago [-]
Love that. Has GUI caught up with the technical capabilities though, or do we need to resort to command-line and editing configuration files to schedule a task?
metalcrow 1 hours ago [-]
There isn't a GUI that i know of, but the files are very basic text files that don't really need much of a GUI. Creating a service and setting it's timer is maybe 10 lines total. For monitoring the services and seeing how long they take and all that i'm sure there are GUIs but none i know of ottomh.
eviks 1 hours ago [-]
> deleted the files. How about them apples, Task Scheduler? > Obviously, Windows wasn't going to let me go by without punishment.

Obviously! You just rent this piece of deprecated garbage, not own!

> Now, I would receive errors for tasks not existing.

And after fixing it, how do you deal with a system update that restores them? Have you found a way to monitor for a list of tasks and delete them should they ever appear again?

(this would also be helpful if you delete some app tasks that come back on app updates)

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