What's the preferred system monitor these days, is it still Conky?

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  • btop

    A monitor of resources

  • Which is better usually depends on personal preferences and requirements. Conky offers a lot of possibilities, but as I don't need them most of the time, I personally prefer to use https://github.com/aristocratos/btop.

  • zenith

    Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage

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  • conky

    Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too

  • From conky's own website:

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