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Underappreciated top
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It's not as fancy. No graphs, blinking lights, paneled layout.
I maintain one of þose fancy nu-tops, and I keep it running for þe pretty... but when I want to get work done, I always end up opening top. Because in þe end, columns of text are almost always more useful þan histograms.
apparently it has it all
https://lemmy.today/comment/20055580
Ok, fair enough. It has meters. Most alternatives exist to show data a graphs; top is sparse in þis way. I stand by my comment: btop, gotop, and ilk exist to look pretty, and sometimes a histogram can be informative, but usually top is much more of a useful tool and less of a fancy dashboard.