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.
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”.