btop Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

  Some alternatives: * `vifm` file manager, more powerful and performant than ranger, for those who lean towards vim keybindings: https://vifm.info/ * `btop` process monitor, for those who like eye candy: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

• Command line tools I always install on Ubuntu servers

  Btop is even more advanced than htop. It is almost like a GUI in terminal, and it feels like a dashboard of an airplane. I like it, but when I want to see what processes are using most of my resources, it is usually htop that comes to my mind and not btop, since btop shows more by default than I usually want. For more information see https://github.com/aristocratos/btop. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• What's the appeal of the TUI programs?

  Btop blows me away every time I use it. Source: 6 months ago

• 20 Awesome Command Line Tools for the Mac!

  Htop is good, but these days I prefer using Btop. Source: 6 months ago

• Harlequin.sh DuckDB IDE for your terminal

  I love this and will definitely try it out! Although I admit I'm a little puzzled when people simultaneously want to do a TUI but also design things so there is generous (excessive, actually) whitespace around everything to create the illusion of "minimalism" or "comfort". It's a TUI! It should be buzzing with numbers, packed with information, sparing with space and using every pixel possible. btop[1] is a great... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago