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Both are good. I like btop for an overview with history, htop more for detailed info on specific processes.
Same for me. Fully abandoned Gnome on my Arch desktop because of it. Need to invest some time into customizing it though, but time just flies and there's too much to do. 🌚
htop for drill downs and old habits, btop for the general overview, iotop (on Linux) for storage, glances as a slow fallback (and muscle memory). Anything I'm missing out on?
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Russo 4 months ago
Yes, i also use it 🔥
I also recommend Ranger file manager for anyone who regularly uses the CLI. Gives a Vim-like quick way to navigate the file system in the CLI without having to constantly type out the full cd/ls/pwd commands to keep track of where you're at.
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Joe 4 months ago
I went full bore from windows straigh to arch. Very user friendly in my opinion if yourr open to reading and learning.
I was reminded how easy Arch is in comparision to Windows when I had to do 2 installs of Windows 11 for a client just to get a stupid local admin account. (He logged in using a M365 account which tainted the entire install and made a local admin account impossible.)
First time I ever installed Linux was in 2000, Fedora and redhat, so painful. Have had a back and forth distro hopping experience with dual boot over the years since. Zorin was the first time I could just drive it and it finally got me 100%, plus I liked the UI polish. But this looks damn good and web apps are prevalent enough now to make me want to try a tiling manager finally as well. The exploring never stops.
I started with Suse 7.0 around 2000 or so, then Debian Woody (2002 or so?), switched to Ubuntu with Breezy (I think) and ran Arch as my daily driver around 2008 when I got my non-unibody Macbook Pro. Wild ride. Though I’ve setted on macOS on Apple hardware and Arch as my desktop system.