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

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I ditched all top programs on my system, because I have no use for any of them....
- How do you check what is eating up all your memory/cpu?
  
  Just download more, simple.
  
  mount google drive as swap. RAM downloaded !!
  
  I kinda want someone to make this for shits and giggles.
  
  https://blog.horner.tj/how-to-kinda-download-more-ram/
  Already been done.
  
  ⬆️ This man is too dangerous to be left alive.
  
  My computer just works so I've never needed to check, but I run XFCE & have xfce4-taskmanager installed, so I could use that if I ever needed....
  
  Ah, I see. I use htop as a task manager.
  
  @berg @furycd001
  To get a comprehensive overview of your system's resource usage, install and run the btop command. It's a top-like interactive system monitor that displays a range of system information, including:
  CPU usage (per core and overall)
  RAM usage (free, used, and cached)
  Disk usage (per disk and overall)
  Network usage (bytes sent and received)
  Process list (with CPU, RAM, and disk usage per process)
  System temperature
  Uptime
- There's a top surgery joke in here somewhere, I can feel it.
- I only use htop to kill process when it froze.
  
  I just use xkill for that....
  
  A question, what tod do when the laptop is completely frozen, as in you can't even move your mouse. Is the only solution to force shutdown?
  
  You can try the Magic SysRq key, if its enabled.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboard_shortcuts
  
  Thankfully I've never had that happen, but if it did I would probably just switch to a tty & use the killall command on whatever was giving me bother....
  
  Switch to a different virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-F3), login and restart desktop manager, switch back to the normal GUI terminal (ctrl-alt-F2)

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