Or, you know… change the sound volume to anything between 0 or 100%.

And it was a memory bug even. Just not a very common one.

Still doesn’t, but X11 randomly freezes the desktop. US keyboard is still better than random hangups that require a power cycle.

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.