alt Hacker NewsI have both, and while btop can look nice, has some templates to cycle through, it lacks things I'm using in htop: s for stracing, l for listing open files, and x for which of them are locked.
It also has some templates to cycle through, and can be made to look nice, too. That thing about the resource usage? A few MB more residential? Oh noez! (Maybe depends on compilation options) Only thing coming to mind are too fast updates, compared to btop defaults (Whatever the distro put in there).
Timelines? Don't really care about them in there. Have other means to get them. Seems gimmicky to me in that scope.
Only thing missing in htop is n for netstat/sockstat in htop. That would be nice in addition to s,l,x.
Btop is still installed only to pose sometimes, for some people. Because of the Ooooh Cyber! effect.
But tbh that works with htop too.
Timelines are by no means a gimmick. Out of the box, btop has good rendering of key metrics .. htop does too, but btop is easier to read in a console (imho). Nothing cyber about it. “Ooh cyber” is a lame straw man but hey, you had to make it.
Btop is pretty and has good defaults for many things.
A performance monitor is not a good interface to strace, nor is it a good replacement for lsof, nn, arp, etc.