[enriquto]

> Could you shed some light on how it further removes abstractions?

By not running hundreds of useless programs, I guess. If you launch htop inside OpenBSD, it'll fill half of your terminal, and the rest is empty.

The easiest way to try it is to install it on a virtual machine. You'll see that not much is needed to get to a point to launch firefox from an xterm.

[horlux]

but that's the case for some linux distros too, e.g void

[anthk]

Top itself is enough, you don´t need htop.

[secondcoming]

I find htop's ability to view the tree structure of a process quite useful. Name your threads!

[enriquto]

Totally agree. But I'm somewhat used to silly things about htop, like selecting a process to kill using the arrow keys, or a default refresh rate of less than 1 second.