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Which one do you prefer? htop, btop or top?
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I tend to go with
htoppurely out of habit.btopis better but I simply don't think to use it.Why do you think that? After this post, I will try out both of them but maybe eventually I will still just use
topout of, same as you bro, habit.I find
htopto be far more legible, the white blocks oftoparen't for me.btopjust seems a bit too much for my use, so I never caught on to it. I do believebtopto be better however, since the point of these programs is to see detailed statistics about your system and running programs.btopshoves a lot more information into your face. I really only openhtopto find the PID of an app or to find what I need to debloat when I'm in a 1337 h4ck3rm4n mood and trying to make the most minimal system possible.I always just grep ps output to find PIDs
Did you mean the upper right corner of
top? I also finebtopis overwhelming, too pretty to look at.Yeah, the unicode blocks.
Have you considered putting
alias htop=btop(or equivalent) in your shell profile?I could, but like I said in my other reply
btopis just a bit overkill for my use-case. Also "fixes" like that just seem a bit hacky, and as if I'm trying too hard to use a program. I shouldn't have to disguise one program as another to be able to use it. That just spells it out plain and clear to me, "I don't need this program".