Which one do you prefer? htop, btop or top?

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.

Tekkip20,
@Tekkip20@lemmy.world avatar

I am a chad htop enjoyer, I find btop and other alternatives too much on the eyes for me personally and HTOP has enough info for me to take a look at in terms of system resources.

Either that or I just use the regular gnome GUI system monitor lol

wick3dr0se,

I’m more of a bottom guy myself

Sickday,
@Sickday@kbin.run avatar

Thanks for the share. Never heard of this until now and the Temperature Sensor and Disk Utilization widgets are awesome.

scratchandgame,

top is the standard.

ITeeTechMonkey,
@ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world avatar

I run Tilix with split terminals and always have one with htop running. It is so satisfying finding a troublesome process and killing it in htop.

Looking at you hanged ssh sessions…

bloodfart,

They’re different tools with different purposes. What you’re asking is like “which do you prefer, hand driver, box/open end wrench, socket wrench or impact driver?”

Ps and top can be used to very easily figure out and address when processes are screwing up. Atop, htop and btop can be used to directly view stuff hardware reports in real-ish time so you can figure out if a process has stopped being “stepped” across cores, a disk has stopped responding in time or when there’s a lot of network traffic.

As utilities they operate within fundamentally different scopes, to the point with btop of being extremely zoomed out macro pictures that are helpful when taking in abstract information about a system.

aodhsishaj,

Glances?

JoeKrogan, (edited )
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

I use btop in tmux on my server but on the desktop I run htop in a dropdown terminal when I need to keep am eye on things

As to the why it depends on the use case but on my server I can monitor all disks and networks utilization by interface in addition to processor and memory usage with btop.

Htop is easier to parse due to the colors but I’ll still use top if on a remove server to check something in work.

DibbleDabble,

btop, since I can use vi bindings to move around in it.

markus99,

MeOnTop

jjlinux,

Htop, but only because its what I’ve always used and have no need to change at the moment.

MangoPenguin,
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

htop gives me enough info without being too busy or slow, it’s also in basically every OS repo by default so no complicated install.

The other ones can look awesome, but they’re often harder to get info from quickly due to being too cluttered.

gerdesj,

atop and htop and glances and several others 8)

drwho,
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

htop is my go-to these days. It tells me what I need to know, and it’s just nice to look at.

DrillingStricken,

I’ve given both htop and btop a spin, and I have to say that I really prefer htop. It offers a prettier interface and more features than top, while still feeling less bloated than btop to me. So yeah, it’s definitely my go-to choice!

Penguincoder,

Btop is pretty. Htop tells me what I want to know. I prefer htop and it’s my goto.

halfway_neko,
@halfway_neko@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

btop because pretty colors :3

i still need to learn how to use top well though, just in case that’s the only option some day. if all else fails i just resort back to ps and (p)kill.

DrillingStricken,

Now that you mention it, I also have to check out ps just in case…

digdilem,

htop on our vms and clusters, because it’s in all the repos, it’s fast, it’s configurable by a deployable config file, it’s very clearly laid out and it does everything I need. I definitely would not call it bloated in any way.

My config includes network and i/o traffic stats, and details cpu load type - this in particular makes iowait very easy to spot when finding out why something’s racking up big sysloads. Plus, it looks very impressive on a machine with 80 cores…

My brain can’t parse top’s output very well for anything other than looking for the highest cpu process.

But - ymmv. Everyone has a preference and we have lots of choice, it doesn’t make one thing better or worse than another.

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