I made the swich a year or two ago. It is much better I find. I leave it running in a tmux session on my server . with btop on one pane and switch to another with a split view to do work. It allows me to take a quick glance at any time while not taking the focus from what I was working on.
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Bottom for life (or at least until something with more stats comes out)
Ooh, it looks even better than gtop.
Edit: Why does the menu look like this?

50/50 on if it starts listing processes or launches a new game of Zelda.
Btop has been rewritten in C++, hence the ++
Uh oh, time to rewrite it in rust
That basically looks like every hollywood movie in existence
hollywood is an installable app which when run takes over your machine with a fullscreen terminal and multiple panels with lots of dyanamic data to look like a hacking scene from a Hollywood film. :)
You can exit it with Ctrl+C
I use btop, iotop, jnettop, and radeontop. I rarely need any individual piece of information any of them but they make for an incredible spread of blinkenlights.
I tried btop. It slowed my computer way the fuck down, so I went back to htop
Pro tip: configure a font that doesn't show open circles for unused braille characters to have a higher priority than your current font to get better-looking graphs.
On my system, braille characters are provided by DejaVu Serif, and it was as easy as just installing the font.
Where do you see open circles? I don't understand sorry
Does noone use glances anymore?
I do as well. I really appreciate the information density, key bindings, and optional web UI. Although I found if I leave glance is running for a prolonged amount of time, it has a tendency to crash from some python issue I haven't dissected yet, as it takes so much time to reproduce.
One I started using Bpytop, I couldn't go back.
Yeah, that looks very cool. Wish I could use it as my wallpaper or a widget in gnome
Meanwhile, every system (even Android) has good ol' top. It works.
Nice, I've tried gtop and atop before and they were pretty nice, but I usually fall back to htop because old habits die hard. I'll give this a go!
I used for a bit, I even configured it to open in a separate monitor when booting, it was cool for a while
I used for a bit...
What changed?
btop doesn't update all of the characters for me after a while if I leave it open for a long time, and eventually it stops updating altogether.
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