Linux

They’re different tools with different purposes. What you’re asking is like “which do you prefer, hand driver, box/open end wrench, socket wrench or impact driver?”

Ps and top can be used to very easily figure out and address when processes are screwing up. Atop, htop and btop can be used to directly view stuff hardware reports in real-ish time so you can figure out if a process has stopped being “stepped” across cores, a disk has stopped responding in time or when there’s a lot of network traffic.

As utilities they operate within fundamentally different scopes, to the point with btop of being extremely zoomed out macro pictures that are helpful when taking in abstract information about a system.

I like btop. It's pretty. I just use it for checking resource usage, I rarely have the need to kill a process or anything else one may do with a system monitor.

atop and htop and glances and several others 8)

herontop

btop because it looks cool

Htop what I use cause it's what I've been using. Only really use it to see what process is taking the most CPU usage or RAM usage. System monitors in general though are mostly useless imo

I use both htop and btop—depending on the mood. htop is less prettier, but more reliable. But sometimes I want pretty and I go with btop. top is where I draw the line. It's too nerdy for me.

I use btop in tmux on my server but on the desktop I run htop in a dropdown terminal when I need to keep am eye on things

As to the why it depends on the use case but on my server I can monitor all disks and networks utilization by interface in addition to processor and memory usage with btop.

Htop is easier to parse due to the colors but I'll still use top if on a remove server to check something in work.

Glances?

I run Tilix with split terminals and always have one with htop running. It is so satisfying finding a troublesome process and killing it in htop.

Looking at you hanged ssh sessions...

top is the standard.

I am a chad htop enjoyer, I find btop and other alternatives too much on the eyes for me personally and HTOP has enough info for me to take a look at in terms of system resources.

Either that or I just use the regular gnome GUI system monitor lol

the b in btop stands for bloat