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.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    you really don’t want your monitoring to take up some significant percentage of that

    except it doesn’t - both htop and btop use <30 MB

    and if 20MB makes a difference, you don’t need a different top, you need a different machine

    “bloat bad” people are just obnoxious