THthunderbong·Jul 13, 2026Submission
Bottom: Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor
1 points · Open discussionClementTsang
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bottom
Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
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Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
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wow, bottom[1] is awesome! This is now my favorite monitor It's not in the Fedora repos but there's a COPR for it. To install: sudo dnf copr enable atim/bottom sudo dnf install…
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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22 sourcesI prefer [bottom](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom)
In Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interfaceI recently found out https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom#readme (cargo install bottom; executable btm), it's a pretty great improvement over htop I was using before.
In Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interfaceBottom is also great. I switched from btop because I preferred the config format.
https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom
In Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?lazydocker as well. Also a big fan of bottom (https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom) , which surprisignly enough even though it has charts and everything, it consumes way fewer resources on my system compared to htop.
In Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense trackerhtop is great, but I've migrated to bottom which has a very similar interface with "btm --basic".
[1] https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom
In Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?Another three very neat ones are
- https://github.com/eza-community/eza (ls with some added visual sugar)
- https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom (htop but with graphs)
- https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (cat with syntax highlight)
In Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntaxwow, bottom[1] is awesome! This is now my favorite monitor It's not in the Fedora repos but there's a COPR for it. To install:
sudo dnf copr enable atim/bottom
sudo dnf install bottom
[1] https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom
In Nvtop: Linux Task Monitor for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUsBottom: Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor
2 points · Open discussionBottom: Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor
9 points · Open discussionbtm: a customizable system monitor for the Linux, macOS, and Windows terminal
3 points · Open discussionI'd suggest Bottom as a TUI alternative to the in-built task managers - https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom
It works on Windows also and in my opinion is better than the default on there too.
In Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron- helix https://helix-editor.com/
- cleanshot x https://cleanshot.com/
- btm https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom
In Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?Maybe they meant to mention "bottom" instead? https://github.com/clementtsang/bottom
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