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.
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?
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.
> 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)
I haven’t experienced that yet, but that’s a good point. Perhaps I need to keep a script of Unregister-ScheduledTask calls like a replayable delete log.
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.
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?
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.
Google systemd GUI and you will find many such tools.
> 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)
Try creating a task that tries to delete these tasks. It could be triggered on startup and periodically like once a day.
I haven’t experienced that yet, but that’s a good point. Perhaps I need to keep a script of Unregister-ScheduledTask calls like a replayable delete log.
No wonder RMMs don’t use Task Scheduler. Easier to just run scripts on a timer you control.
Excellent read
Thanks!