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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Bottom for life (or at least until something with more stats comes out)
That basically looks like every hollywood movie in existence
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
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.
Ooh, it looks even better than gtop.
Edit: Why does the menu look like this?

50/50 on if it starts listing processes or launches a new game of Zelda.
Btop has been rewritten in C++, hence the ++
Uh oh, time to rewrite it in rust
I tried btop. It slowed my computer way the fuck down, so I went back to htop
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.
Does noone use glances anymore?
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.
Yeah, that looks very cool. Wish I could use it as my wallpaper or a widget in gnome
I used for a bit, I even configured it to open in a separate monitor when booting, it was cool for a while
I used for a bit...
What changed?
Meanwhile, every system (even Android) has good ol' top. It works.
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!
One I started using Bpytop, I couldn't go back.
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.
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