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  • I like btop because of its ease of use and modern gui. When I open top or even htop it feels like I’m using something designed for a dumb terminal from the 70s. When opening btop it feels like something designed for how computers are used now and not 50 years ago.

    Also to my knowledge It’s the only full system monitor to include GPU monitoring (while other GPU monitors exist they usually only monitor the GPU and not the whole system)





  • Probably PoP_OS!. There isn’t anything wrong with the os itelf, my problem is rather that its often sugested as a beginer friendly distro which in my experience it absolutely isn’t. The amount of issues I encountered while trying to use it almost drove me away from Linux as a whole. (It was the first distro i tried) The time I spent trying to make everything work was comparable to Arch.

    I realy like the idea and the DE they ship by default is one of the best ones I’ve seen (it’s like GNOME but in my opinion much better) but the bugs make it a terrible suggestion for new users.









  • You are pretty lucky if you haven’t experienced any issues. For most people thogh spots are gonna be:

    1. Gaming. While a lot of games work perfectly a lot also don’t work (mainly if they have a kernel level anticheat rootkit)

    2. Nvidia. Do i have to say any more?

    3. Wifi. Often wifi cards just don’t work or work very poorly.

    4. Laptop specific features. Stuff like a MUX switch, ambient light sensors and fingerprint scanners very often have no drivers for linux.


  • Troubleshooting for the average person is where it’s a bit harder.

    I never undestood that point, i hear it quite a bit but for me its always the opposite. On linux if something dosen’t work i can usually see a detailed log of what went wrong. On windows its usually an error message with barly any info, stuff like “Error code: 0x72AF9B5D1” or “IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL” isn’t very usefull.