Underappreciated top
friendo.monster

Always thought top was one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable to htop and the like. The default configuration just doesn’t show much of it…

  • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
    83·
    1 day ago

    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.

      • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
        11·
        11 hours ago

        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.