If you like COSMIC Desktop, you'll love its new system monitor

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ZDNET's key takeaways

  • System76 has created a brilliant system monitor.
  • This tool is built specifically for the COSMIC Desktop.
  • With the perfect amount of information, this monitoring tool is ideal.

Linux users love to view the processes running on their machines. They like to make sure the system is running as expected, see how many system resources an app is consuming, view network traffic in and out, get information about GPUs, and more.

To that end, there are several GUI and command-line tools for not only locating that information but also managing the processes that might be causing problems. There's GNOME System Monitor, Plasma System Monitor, MATE System Monitor, Mission Center, Conky, Resources, Stacer, Htop, Glances, and more.

Also: I've tested many portable Linux distros, but PorteuX is the one I keep on my USB drive

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