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[โ€“] nykula@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does btop compare against a GTK+ task manager in terms of memory usage when you include the terminal emulator in the btop count? It'd be a more technically correct comparison that way.

[โ€“] somegeek@programming.dev 2 points 19 hours ago

Great point. But to be honest I already have an emulator open 99% of the time. So there's no particular overhead for me. But I will include your point in the update. Thank you for your time!