I use btop all the time, used htop before I knew about btop, almost never use top.
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I think you still should learn how to use top in case something happens and btop is out of the picture. That is the reason I use and stick with it in the first place.
atop and htop and glances and several others 8)
btop, since I can use vi bindings to move around in it.
herontop
Never heard of it.
btop because it looks cool
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...
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
Htop what I use cause it's what I've been using. Only really use it to see what process is taking the most CPU usage or RAM usage. System monitors in general though are mostly useless imo
I use both htop and btop—depending on the mood. htop is less prettier, but more reliable. But sometimes I want pretty and I go with btop. top is where I draw the line. It's too nerdy for me.
top is the standard.
Glances?
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.