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title: "htop"
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date: 2023-01-19T10:38:41-05:00
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htop is an absolutely useless program.
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{{< img src="/pix/htop.png" link="/pix/htop.png" class=normal >}}
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## What is htop?
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htop is theoretically a system-monitor program, but no one uses it for that.
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What it actually is is a program that produces a bunch of smart-looking and multicolor lines and shapes with important-seeming process names.
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This is the ultimate weapon against impressionable normies if you want to impress them by pretending to be some kind of hacker.
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htop is only found (1) in screencaps to show your "set-up" to other losers on the internet and (2) when a normie girl is nearby to hopefully goad her into a conversation you were otherwise too awkward to initiate yourself.
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## You wouldn't do it in Windows.
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Look at how stupid this image looks.
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{{< img src="/pix/windows-htop.jpg" link="/pix/windows-htop.jpg" class=normal >}}
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"Oh what, he just pulled up some command prompts, a file browser and a system monitor? Why? Is he actually doing something with those empty prompts? Why does he need a system monitor filling up a third of his screen for this alleged work he's doing?"
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All sensible questions that a person naturally asks when he sees the familiar world of Windows.
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Yet for newfriends who HECKIN' LOVE GNU/LINUX, for what ever reason, they do the same stuff, take a screencap of it and post it.
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This is only possible because even of those people use use GNU/Linux, even in a fancy tiling window manager, so many of them are still struggling to figure things out, so a couple htop windows and a silly file manager open and the brain degrades to a lower, confusion-induced operating level which makes it fawn at the mystery of it.
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I mean really---obviously I think tiling window managers are useful, that's what LARBS is about, but when you are *actually working on something* do you *ever* have more than three windows tiled on the same workspace at one time?
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Seriously, for most things, I have one thing per workspace unless another prompt is strictly visually necessary. Three or *maybe* four is definitely the maximum.
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So it goes without saying that people who pull up seven windows and some pics of anime girls baking pancakes are not doing anything with their computers looking like that.
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## Running
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Run `htop` by typing it in the terminal.
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I even bound it to <kbd>super + shift + r</kbd> just for fun because I wasn't using that key for anything important.
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