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

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

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.

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

really? I've never had much issues

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.

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

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

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

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.