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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I made the swich a year or two ago. It is much better I find. I leave it running in a tmux session on my server . with btop on one pane and switch to another with a split view to do work. It allows me to take a quick glance at any time while not taking the focus from what I was working on.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Bottom for life (or at least until something with more stats comes out)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just found this too, through the rust post some days ago...but its quite obvious that from a usability context that btop is easier to use. With bottom you have to memorize all hotkeys wheres btop is showing them right in the interface.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yea. I was using bottom until I saw this and did a quick side-by-side comparison (nix-shell -p btop, I use NixOS BTW). btop's UI is just so much better.

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

I’m really loving bottom

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Switch is that perfect sweet spot right in the middle. Very versatile.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Ooh, it looks even better than gtop.

Edit: Why does the menu look like this?

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

50/50 on if it starts listing processes or launches a new game of Zelda.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Say no more, I'm sold

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Btop has been rewritten in C++, hence the ++

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That basically looks like every hollywood movie in existence

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hollywood is an installable app which when run takes over your machine with a fullscreen terminal and multiple panels with lots of dyanamic data to look like a hacking scene from a Hollywood film. :)

You can exit it with Ctrl+C

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use btop, iotop, jnettop, and radeontop. I rarely need any individual piece of information any of them but they make for an incredible spread of blinkenlights.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pro tip: configure a font that doesn't show open circles for unused braille characters to have a higher priority than your current font to get better-looking graphs.

On my system, braille characters are provided by DejaVu Serif, and it was as easy as just installing the font.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where do you see open circles? I don't understand sorry

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I tried btop. It slowed my computer way the fuck down, so I went back to htop

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does noone use glances anymore?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I do as well. I really appreciate the information density, key bindings, and optional web UI. Although I found if I leave glance is running for a prolonged amount of time, it has a tendency to crash from some python issue I haven't dissected yet, as it takes so much time to reproduce.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One I started using Bpytop, I couldn't go back.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that looks very cool. Wish I could use it as my wallpaper or a widget in gnome

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Meanwhile, every system (even Android) has good ol' top. It works.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Nice, I've tried gtop and atop before and they were pretty nice, but I usually fall back to htop because old habits die hard. I'll give this a go!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used for a bit, I even configured it to open in a separate monitor when booting, it was cool for a while

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used for a bit...

What changed?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi Guiseppe

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

btop doesn't update all of the characters for me after a while if I leave it open for a long time, and eventually it stops updating altogether.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I ditched all top programs on my system, because I have no use for any of them....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How do you check what is eating up all your memory/cpu?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just download more, simple.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

mount google drive as swap. RAM downloaded !!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

⬆️ This man is too dangerous to be left alive.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There's a top surgery joke in here somewhere, I can feel it.

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