Always thought top was one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable to htop and the like. The default configuration just doesn’t show much of it…
That moment when you realize you’re not in !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone and people are talking about an entirely different kind of top than you were thinking.
This is dope, though, I also thought
topwas just stuck in time.I decided to check and first meme had thevword “terminal” in it.
Guess what I interpreted.
Why are good features never made defaults in some tools? We can make it look almost like
htopand it feels like the defaults couldn’t be worse. It’s such a waste to hide good features behind bad defaults.Yeah, I especially don’t understand it here, because it’s a graphical tool. You don’t have to keep backwards compatibility.
Even if you’re worried about people depending on the format that’s being piped, you could keep only the piped format stable. We have the technology.
I’m also underappreciated top
I wish the author can just share a configuration file. I am not configuring this on all my machines manually.
Defaults matter
You’re talking about procps-ng
top.I am using top for a long time, when I log on a system to check thing, I always type “s 1” to refresh 1 second, “e” to display in mb, “shift e” if top is not in mb, “c” to toggle name/command line, then “W” to save
Saving for later, pretty cool.
Top reads available memory more correctly than htop imho.
