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Which one do you prefer? htop, btop or top?
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htop because it's much more user-friendly than top, has the feature of sending all kinds of signals to processes, has mouse support and it generally looks good. Not a fan of btop at all. Idk how to use it and I don't like the UI. I personally love the idea of no bloat. It's just such a nice little philosophy. Sometimes I even want to use a CLI only computer tbh. Though htop weights only a few kilobytes and it has features top doesn't have so I don't consider it bloat. I had it on my server as well
Yeah, I can understand RAM use in
htop, but not intopAlso, the Tree View makes it easy to see which part of has become a zombie, etc.
To be honest, I really prefer
btop's sleek UI. It looks so modern and advanced. But with all its beauty and abundance of information, it can be overwhelming at times or in another words, bloattt. That's why I personally lean towardshtop's text-based interface, which I find highly customizable to my preferences. Plus, htop offers more features and conveniences thantop, making it my go-to choice for now.