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.
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?
I’ve just been using libre office draw but if anyone has a better alternative I’d love to hear it.
Try Pinta! It’s pretty nice and minimal!
Yeah I’ve just been slowly learning GIMP but nothing comes close to paint
Have you tried Krita?
No but it looks like more of a digital painting tool than basic image editing which is all I used paint for anyway
It’s far more than basic image editing, but it’s also far more akin to Photoshop than GIMP is imo.
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 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
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
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.
Kate is great!
“Open source is like sex. It tastes better when it’s free” - Linus Thorvald
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 htopin 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…)
What is wrong with flat pack? I heard they were good
(noob question probably)
that is can of worms. not regular worms a mix of different earth worms that only wormologits can tell apart
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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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).
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.
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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
The Windows task manager only refreshes at a certain interval. Holding F5 will make it refresh as fast as it can.
