I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is
WuTang, 
why ? Why do you feel the need to have process monitoring displayed all the time?
caseyweederman, You can sort and filter it.
More generally, are you questioning why the Top category of tools exists?
WuTang, no, I am questioning why do you have those open all the time. in 17y, I never had to. This is just ASCII pr0n to look “deep” .
spacedout, 
I have it open all the time, exactly for this reason. 15 years and going.
caseyweederman, Haha, to look deep? Same here.
towerful, As you gaze into the btop, the btop gazes into you
1984, 
You are right, they aren’t open all the time except in screenshots. :)
zShxck, If you press P you can get rid of them
0x0, It’s a tool. It’s useful to figure out if something you’re running is IO-bound or CPU-bound. It also shows per-core load, which is useful for visualizing multi-threaded performance.
aodhsishaj, Hi Guiseppe
Shinji_Ikari, 
ps -aux | grep yourmom
zShxck, Get in the robot Shinji
SpaceNoodle, Meanwhile, every system (even Android) has good ol’ top. It works.
yum13241, It can’t even kill processes.
SpaceNoodle, That’s what kill is for …
yum13241, And then I forget the pid.
SpaceNoodle, It should be in the terminal right next to the one you have open for issuing the kill command
Don’t tell me that you’re only using a single terminal window
0x0, That’s what pkill is for.
filcuk, Purely on aesthetics, I find bashtop nicer, but I couldn’t get it on my server.
I often use glances for general monitoring.
dan, 
This looks great! Thanks for the recommendation.
I like Netdata because it’s web based, has a large number of metrics, you can pan/zoom the graphs, and it doesn’t use much CPU power. Console UIs are nice but they’re more limiting than something web-based.
257m, Perhaps someone can implement something w3mimage or sixels in btop for pannable graphs. Don’t know how efficient that is.
257m, The nord theme on btop is blissful. It looks so good.
oscardejarjayes, bottom users rise up. RIIR!
el_gringo_loco, Yeah, that looks very cool. Wish I could use it as my wallpaper or a widget in gnome
zShxck, Open btop in the terminal, then (note the terminal window must not be in fullscreen) right click with the mouse on the top bar of the terminal window and select “Always on top”.
MonkderZweite, has more empty space. Can the user change that?
Kwdg, You can collapse the subwindows and configure the graphs
MonkderZweite, Oh, good.
pete_the_cat, 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!
JoMiran, 
One I started using Bpytop, I couldn’t go back.
Melco, What is the difference between bytop and btop?
JoMiran, (edited ) It’s written in Python.
EDIT: My original comment refers to going to Bpytop from just plain top. I believe btop is a C++ rewrite of bpytop.
beta_tester, Crazy
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