Why? I don’t know, maybe someone here will like it.
The fact that it has GPU graph already makes it better than other tools.
“Open source is like sex. It tastes better when it’s free” - Linus Thorvald
I’ll save this quote for future uses, thank you
Task manager is one of the few Windows apps that works really well. Glad to see the design making it’s way to Linux.
That and paint are the two things I miss moving from Windows
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.
What about KolourPaint?
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.
GIMP is great but sometimes you don’t need a woodworking shop, you need a butter knife.
Yes, except that in Windows 11 they messed it up completely by making it laggy and adding the functionality to randomly crash itself.
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.
That looks cool
For a good task manager, btop is really good.
Editor: helix
How about Vscodium?
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.
Micro is a quite nice replacement for Nano: https://micro-editor.github.io/ but Notepadqq looks interesting too.
Kate is great!
What does notepad++ offer that other tools don’t?
Nice formating for config files and instant boot up when opening said files.
I always wished someone would port Notepad++ over to Rust and hopefully make it cross-platform.
I am testing Lapce and I can see it as an alternative in the future
I think it’s cool. The Windows Task Manager is not bad IMO
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.
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
Task manager is one of the most lightweight tools Windows has these days. It’s not slow at all.
“More data points in the graph” doesn’t mean the code runs any better. Task manager needs to run on machines where making basic graphs takes up 25% of a CPU core, there’s no need to waste CPU cycles taking 60 measurements per second.
The Windows task manager only refreshes at a certain interval. Holding F5 will make it refresh as fast as it can.
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
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.
Eh, what is it doing that requires 200MB+ memory?
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).
Imagine launching a flatpak when your computer is already overloaded 💀
Nothing stopping anyone from building the source and running against native libraries is there?
Are flatpaks really that bad? Why would they even require more resources?
Because they load their own copy of all libraries, 300MB of Gnome and whatnot, just to display you a task manager?
Thats not true
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