I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is

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why ? Why do you feel the need to have process monitoring displayed all the time?

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.

You can sort and filter it.

More generally, are you questioning why the Top category of tools exists?

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" .

You are right, they aren't open all the time except in screenshots. :)

If you press P you can get rid of them