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.
htop because pretty colors and graphs.
Or top because it’s like muscle memory now.
I like htop more, but btop has better colors and graphs (imo)
Well, you’re not wrong. I was away from my desktop when I commented and forgot btop looked so fancy.
For now I still prefer htop because I can see at a glance the stuff I’m most interested in (mem & cpu and process sort).
I’ll have to play with some of the other suggestions in the post…
I also am starting to play around with cockpit a little more for remote monitoring.