Task Manager Alternatives for Linux

Task Manager is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is htop, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Task Manager and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Task Manager are witr, Mission Center, Resources and Glances.

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  1. htop icon
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    htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. htop is an interactive top replacement that runs in the terminal. The available columns are: PID, STATE, PPID, PGRP, SESSION, TTY_NR, TPGID, MINFLT...

    78 htop alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Linux Mobile
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  2. witr icon
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    CLI diagnostic tool for tracing processes and their causal ancestry, explaining origins, supervising service, context like directories and containers, risk signals, with support for Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, platform-specific inspection, JSON output, and open licensing.

    27 witr alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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  3. Mission Center icon
     34 likes

    Monitor your CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU usage.

    131 Mission Center alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Linux Mobile
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  4. Resources icon
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    Resources is a simple yet powerful monitor for your system resources and processes, written in Rust and using GTK 4 and libadwaita for its GUI.

    127 Resources alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Linux Mobile
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  5. Glances icon
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    Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a large amount of monitoring information through a curses or Web based interface. The information dynamically adapts depending on the size of the user interface.

    74 Glances alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. Stacer icon
     59 likes

    Stacer is an open source system optimizer and application monitor that helps users to manage entire system with different aspects, its an all in one system utility.

    35 Stacer alternatives

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    • Linux
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  7. KSysGuard icon
     29 likes

    KSysGuard, also known as KDE System Guard and KDE System Monitor, is designed to make simple process control available to a user without needing to do any special setup - the defaults are usually perfectly adequate.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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  8. Pachtop icon
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    Pachtop is a lightweight, performant, and opensource system monitor that provides real-time monitoring of your system's performance, application monitoring, and detailed system information. Built with Rust and Tauri

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  9. SysMonTask icon
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    Linux system monitor with the compactness and usefulness of windows task manager to allow higher control and monitoring.

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    • Linux
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