Should users quit running applications? Given a generally large amount of memory available (due to its low cost), and OS application paging, I'm not so sure.
The only reason I ever quit a running application on any modern OS is due to old habits that have died hard and a tired model of thinking ("I'm probably low on memory so I should kill this process"), or because the process itself is misbehaving. Correctly-behaving applications generally don't need to be terminated.
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Should users quit running applications? Given a generally large amount of memory available (due to its low cost), and OS application paging, I'm not so sure.
The only reason I ever quit a running application on any modern OS is due to old habits that have died hard and a tired model of thinking ("I'm probably low on memory so I should kill this process"), or because the process itself is misbehaving. Correctly-behaving applications generally don't need to be terminated.