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I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I tried btop. It slowed my computer way the fuck down, so I went back to htop

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you used bpytop, not btop? They look the same iirc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oh, you might actually be right there... I'm not sure now I didn't realize there were alternatives.

I remember trying it a while back when I found a list of fancy looking terminal apps. It was fancy, but it came at the cost of performance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

yeah you need a decently fast hw accelerated terminal for it
for example, the gnome terminal is pretty slow; if you're using it, try running it in alacrity or kitty and see if that improves performance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'll have to check it out. I've seen kitty mentioned a few times but I'm an oldschool xterm kinda guy lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

really? I've never had much issues

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My laptop went bonkers trying to run it, maybe I have something misconfigured somewhere. I wanted to like it because it looks great, but I couldn't because it was seemingly too resource intensive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

i see, that's a bit of a shame because i enjoy it a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Somebody mentioned I may have been running bpytop, so maybe this whole thing is my bad. I honestly can't remember what I ran now - I thought it was btop