Why? I don’t know, maybe someone here will like it.

  • YAMAPIKARIYA
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    771 year ago

    The fact that it has GPU graph already makes it better than other tools.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      KDE Sytem monitor has that function, too. You just have to add it to the history page (Sensors/GPU/Usage)

  • @DudeWithaTwist
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    531 year ago

    Task manager is one of the few Windows apps that works really well. Glad to see the design making it’s way to Linux.

      • Fantasy
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        Paint is especially surprising to miss, but yeah. I tried a few different image editing programs on Linux but they were all either too limited in scope or were too complex to quickly learn.

      • @[email protected]
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        ps, top, and kill along with GIMP aren’t good enough?

        I do like the pretty charts though so I can see how close my GPU is to melting.

        • deejay4am
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          171 year ago

          GIMP is great but sometimes you don’t need a woodworking shop, you need a butter knife.

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          GIMP is way too complicated for what MS Paint gets used for, I’d easily argue it’s harder to use than Photoshop.

          Paint Dot Net is a happy medium but that’s also Windows only IIRC

    • @joel_feila
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      21 year ago

      it better consider how you have to ctrl alt del

      • @DudeWithaTwist
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        51 year ago

        You mean Ctrl+Shift+Esc? I don’t see a problem with this?

        • @joel_feila
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          21 year ago

          i had no idea you can do that in linux.

          • @DudeWithaTwist
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            51 year ago

            I was talking about Windows… Linux DEs typically allow you to customize keybinds.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yes, except that in Windows 11 they messed it up completely by making it laggy and adding the functionality to randomly crash itself.

    • @[email protected]
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      201 year ago

      Well it’s not bad in theory, it just runs like ass… This version already runs 10 times faster than the real thing, sometimes I wonder what the hell is going on over at Microsoft.

      • @[email protected]
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        181 year ago

        Thing is when your system is dying and nothing is responding, you can almost always trust task manager to respond because of its privileges, simplicity and the fact it’s built into the OS rather than using APIs, even if explorer.exe crashes.

        Given there’s no “ctrl-alt-f2: Imma go fix this mess” on Windows, having at least something you can rely on to not die is super valuable even if it is bad.

        I’m not saying this tool isn’t better for system monitoring (but I would like to see something like KSysGuard), just that Microsoft absolutely shouldn’t touch task manager to fix whatever’s wrong with it’s resource usage monitoring functionality to avoid breaking something else in it

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        The Windows task manager only refreshes at a certain interval. Holding F5 will make it refresh as fast as it can.

      • @ryncewynd
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        31 year ago

        What’s wrong with your pc if Task Manager runs like ass lol.

        Task Manager is like… The one thing guaranteed to run on a potato

        • Gorilla Thug
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          41 year ago

          Have you tried out the Windows 11 22h2 version? THAT one is crappy af. Even switching between menus in the sidepanel can take a few seconds to register, and I‘ve had friends with powerful Nvidia GPUs report about the same issue.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          What’s wrong with your pc

          Are you on windows 11 yet? The only place where I still use windows is my company notebook. And it’s not top notch high end, but it has a ssd, it has a 6 core cpu and it has 16 GB of RAM, yet it still runs like absolute ass.

          With virtually NOTHING going on, it takes about 3 - 5 seconds for task manager to open. Clicking on “processes” takes 5 seconds, not just the first time, but every-time I switch to processes (or pretty much any tab for that matter). I too believed that there was probably an issue with my device or something, but I just had to use a replacement notebook that has even newer hardware and it runs exactly the same…

          Now is that unusable? No, I’m probably a bit nit-picky. But it does absolutely infuriate me that Microsoft seems to struggle more and more with performance with every new windows version, especially when I also work with Linux systems that just are 10 times smoother with half the hardware specs…

          Before windows 11, I would more or less agree with you. Task manager would be reliable even when the machine was struggling. But since I use windows 11, I had task manager crash multiple times.

  • @netvor
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    151 year ago

    Looks good. Anyone knows if there are .deb’s somewhere?

    TBH, I’m not likely to use flatpak untill I absolutely have to, and with $meta+= exec htop in my .i3/config I’m not exactly the primary audience.

    (By the way, that’s nothing against the author’s decision to go “flatpak first”, I fully support whatever choice they make as long as the project is F/LOSS. I don’t have the resources to help so I’m happy to wait until the project grows enough until the deb appears…)

    • @ryncewynd
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      61 year ago

      What is wrong with flat pack? I heard they were good

      (noob question probably)

      • @joel_feila
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        31 year ago

        that is can of worms. not regular worms a mix of different earth worms that only wormologits can tell apart

      • @netvor
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        Which part of

        By the way, that’s nothing against the author’s decision to go “flatpak first”, I fully support whatever choice they make as long as the project is F/LOSS

        is whiny?

        oh, you mean this part

        I’m not likely to use flatpak untill I absolutely have to

        OK, maybe a little bit. I did not mean to sound like that :)

  • @[email protected]OP
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    Guys do you have a memory leak? When it is open, it consumes around 200 MB of RAM. After a while it reaches 800 MB

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      How long is “a while”? I’ve had it open for around 30 minutes now and I’m not seeing what you’re describing. Around the 15 minute mark I also tried clicking through various tabs, performing some actions, etc. and memory usage is still staying steady at 247MiB.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          That is a very good question. Short answer: I don’t know as I am not familiar with the project.

          I have had a brief look at the issue tracker and it doesn’t seem to be mentioned on there. Perhaps I will raise an issue later when I am at my computer (or if anyone else beats me to it then please feel free).

  • @FluffyPotato
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    111 year ago

    Oh wow, this is really nice. I was using System Monitoring Center but this is so much nicer. My only complaint is no CPU temperature display but that’s not a huge loss.

    Windows had 2 pieces of software that didn’t have a better alternative in Linux, now I just gotta find something like Notepad++ and I’m good.

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        41 year ago

        Nah, I’m looking for a nice text editor, not a full on IDE. Something I can quickly open to change config files and stuff that has good formatting and can also auto detect the formating. By the time vscode boots up I have gotten bored and done the changes in nano.

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          Oh cool! TIL! (Well I knew but I forgot lol) But yeah I miss how notepad++ saves what you had open before

      • @FluffyPotato
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        21 year ago

        I have tried both and I absolutely don’t understand why people use those. Most IDEs work better in my opinion and for just editing text files nano is better. A lot of people way smarter than me use em but I don’t see the appeal.

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          Idk I just kinda got used to neovim and made a custom color scheme too lol (although I’m still learning), but I might go and try out Geany again, I haven’t used it in a while. And I don’t use neovim for everything, I use vscodium for editing stuff like html and css

    • @hardcoreufo
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      21 year ago

      Have you tried Geany? It’s been my go-to editor.

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        Nice formating for config files and instant boot up when opening said files.

  • @zephyr
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    71 year ago

    Nice. I was looking for some GUI helper in Linux similar to Device Manager

  • @[email protected]
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    Haha this is fun project. Youtuber ‘Dave’s Garage’ spend years with annual six figures to create this tool.