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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htop because it’s much more user-friendly than top, has the feature of sending all kinds of signals to processes, has mouse support and it generally looks good. Not a fan of btop at all. Idk how to use it and I don’t like the UI. I personally love the idea of no bloat. It’s just such a nice little philosophy. Sometimes I even want to use a CLI only computer tbh. Though htop weights only a few kilobytes and it has features top doesn’t have so I don’t consider it bloat. I had it on my server as well

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Yeah, I can understand RAM use in htop, but not in top

Also, the Tree View makes it easy to see which part of <insert name of application> has become a zombie, etc.

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To be honest, I really prefer btop’s sleek UI. It looks so modern and advanced. But with all its beauty and abundance of information, it can be overwhelming at times or in another words, bloattt. That’s why I personally lean towards htop’s text-based interface, which I find highly customizable to my preferences. Plus, htop offers more features and conveniences than top, making it my go-to choice for now.

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Uh, temperatures, that’s nice.

I’d really like one of these to include GPU stats (I know, there’s nvtop or whatever it’s called), GUI apps can do it (Mission Center and a KDE system monitor widget), but I’ve not seen a CLI program include that …

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btop has GPU stats in recent versions.

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It does? Amazing, hopefully that lands on my systems at some point.

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Bottom gang unite

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Yeah, +1 for bottom. Love myself a nice ASCII graph

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+1 btm squad

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Up top

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Btop

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It’s no burden. Don’t overthink it. Use whatever you like.

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Totally, but I do want to know about other people experience tho. So if you don’t mind, share with me my friend.

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btop is not only beautiful but contains more info more dense more compact.

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