The Linux command line has a wealth of useful tools which exist because someone wanted to improve on the stock tools which come with most distros. As you expand your Linux Command Line Fu you'll come across these tools which make life just a little more simple.
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Personally I find btop really hard to glance at and see what’s happening, htop is much better for opening up and quickly checking what process is hogging CPU/RAM/IO/whatever.
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I like btop better just on an aesthetic level. But they all show the same shit as far as I can tell.
Real programmers cat the data directly from /proc
Personally I find btop really hard to glance at and see what’s happening, htop is much better for opening up and quickly checking what process is hogging CPU/RAM/IO/whatever.