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Which one do you prefer? htop, btop or top? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why do you find yourself opting for btop or htop instead of top? What advantages do these tools offer that make them superior to top in your opinion?

top has served me well, so I'm unsure why I would want to burden my system with the addition of htop or btop. With top, if you wish to terminate a process, simply press 'k' and send the signal; it's that simple. If you'd like to identify the origin of a process, just include the command column.

I often find myself intrigued when encountering comments on posts expressing love for htop/btop. To me, it appears unnecessary or BLOATED!! Please do share your perspectives and help broaden my Linux knowledgebase.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I run Tilix with split terminals and always have one with htop running. It is so satisfying finding a troublesome process and killing it in htop.

Looking at you hanged ssh sessions...

[–] Secret300 2 points 11 months ago

Htop what I use cause it's what I've been using. Only really use it to see what process is taking the most CPU usage or RAM usage. System monitors in general though are mostly useless imo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I am a chad htop enjoyer, I find btop and other alternatives too much on the eyes for me personally and HTOP has enough info for me to take a look at in terms of system resources.

Either that or I just use the regular gnome GUI system monitor lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

btop because it looks cool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

herontop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Never heard of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Glances?

[–] kugmo -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

the b in btop stands for bloat

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