Easy Task Management -htop Task Manager
Windows has a lot of task manager programs that provide graphical ways to manage open applications and running processes. Linux doesn’t have something like that, but you can achieve something similar with the
htop command.
Most Linux distros don’t come with
htop installed. If you’re on Ubuntu or an Ubuntu-derived distro, the following should work:$ sudo apt-get install htop
Once
htop is installed, you can run it by typing htop on the command line. When you do, you’ll get a full overview of all the processes running on your system along with details like process IDs, CPU and RAM usage, and how long they’ve been running.
What I love about
htop, as opposed to the default top command, is the ease of use. Tap the cursor keys left and right to scroll through the details (if they don’t all fit in terminal’s width) and up and down to scroll through the other listed processes.
Other features, like sorting, make it easier to find what you need, and the color-coded text makes it all easier to read at a glance.
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