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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that it has GPU graph already makes it better than other tools.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

KDE Sytem monitor has that function, too. You just have to add it to the history page (Sensors/GPU/Usage)

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Task manager is one of the few Windows apps that works really well. Glad to see the design making it's way to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That and paint are the two things I miss moving from Windows

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Paint is especially surprising to miss, but yeah. I tried a few different image editing programs on Linux but they were all either too limited in scope or were too complex to quickly learn.

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

Try Pinta! It's pretty nice and minimal!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've just been using libre office draw but if anyone has a better alternative I'd love to hear it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

ps, top, and kill along with GIMP aren't good enough?

I do like the pretty charts though so I can see how close my GPU is to melting.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

GIMP is great but sometimes you don’t need a woodworking shop, you need a butter knife.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GIMP is way too complicated for what MS Paint gets used for, I'd easily argue it's harder to use than Photoshop.

Paint Dot Net is a happy medium but that's also Windows only IIRC

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you. Although I'm sticking to btop, it's nice to have the option.

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

I think it's cool. The Windows Task Manager is not bad IMO

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well it's not bad in theory, it just runs like ass.. This version already runs 10 times faster than the real thing, sometimes I wonder what the hell is going on over at Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Thing is when your system is dying and nothing is responding, you can almost always trust task manager to respond because of its privileges, simplicity and the fact it's built into the OS rather than using APIs, even if explorer.exe crashes.

Given there's no "ctrl-alt-f2: Imma go fix this mess" on Windows, having at least something you can rely on to not die is super valuable even if it is bad.

I'm not saying this tool isn't better for system monitoring (but I would like to see something like KSysGuard), just that Microsoft absolutely shouldn't touch task manager to fix whatever's wrong with it's resource usage monitoring functionality to avoid breaking something else in it

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

The Windows task manager only refreshes at a certain interval. Holding F5 will make it refresh as fast as it can.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't know that! Although that makes the x-axis label of "60 seconds" not right...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's wrong with your pc if Task Manager runs like ass lol.

Task Manager is like... The one thing guaranteed to run on a potato

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Have you tried out the Windows 11 22h2 version? THAT one is crappy af. Even switching between menus in the sidepanel can take a few seconds to register, and I‘ve had friends with powerful Nvidia GPUs report about the same issue.

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

I literally whispered "why?" to myself. Re-Write windows in rust! LMAO

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guys do you have a memory leak? When it is open, it consumes around 200 MB of RAM. After a while it reaches 800 MB

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

How long is "a while"? I've had it open for around 30 minutes now and I'm not seeing what you're describing. Around the 15 minute mark I also tried clicking through various tabs, performing some actions, etc. and memory usage is still staying steady at 247MiB.

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

Eh, what is it doing that requires 200MB+ memory?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That is a very good question. Short answer: I don't know as I am not familiar with the project.

I have had a brief look at the issue tracker and it doesn't seem to be mentioned on there. Perhaps I will raise an issue later when I am at my computer (or if anyone else beats me to it then please feel free).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Looks good. Anyone knows if there are .deb's somewhere?

TBH, I'm not likely to use flatpak untill I absolutely have to, and with $meta+= exec htop in my .i3/config I'm not exactly the primary audience.

(By the way, that's nothing against the author's decision to go "flatpak first", I fully support whatever choice they make as long as the project is F/LOSS. I don't have the resources to help so I'm happy to wait until the project grows enough until the deb appears..)

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

What is wrong with flat pack? I heard they were good

(noob question probably)

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

"Open source is like sex. It tastes better when it's free" - Linus Thorvald

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Oh wow, this is really nice. I was using System Monitoring Center but this is so much nicer. My only complaint is no CPU temperature display but that's not a huge loss.

Windows had 2 pieces of software that didn't have a better alternative in Linux, now I just gotta find something like Notepad++ and I'm good.

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

Cool, one of the few things I miss from Windows.

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

I feel like the design of this fits better with the gnome desktop than gnome system monitor

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haha this is fun project. Youtuber 'Dave's Garage' spend years with annual six figures to create this tool.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Imagine launching a flatpak when your computer is already overloaded 💀

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are flatpaks really that bad? Why would they even require more resources?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Because they load their own copy of all libraries, 300MB of Gnome and whatnot, just to display you a task manager?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Nice. I was looking for some GUI helper in Linux similar to Device Manager

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And here I would always immediately replace it with Process Explorer back when I still had to use Windows.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Got this setup and running on my Steam Deck. Really really cool. Love how clean it looks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This looks phenomenal-looking. That graph widget should be standardized too.

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