Summary
System Monitoring Center is a useful tool that’s fairly comprehensive. The interactive charts are implemented well although there’s definitely room for improvement in its interface design.
The tool claims that it’s optimized for low CPU usage and fast start. While it’s definitely not the lightest monitoring tool we’ve tested, at least it’s written in Python and not one of those horribly bloated Electron apps.
The app offers a light and dark theme.
We experienced a few issues with the Flatpak version which we’ll investigate further.
Website: github.com/hakandundar34coding/system-monitoring-center
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Developer: Hakan Dündar
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – Performance: Summary
Page 3 – Performance: CPU
Page 4 – Performance: Memory
Page 5 – Performance: Disk
Page 6 – Performance: Network
Page 7 – Performance: GPU
Page 8 – Performance: Sensors
Page 9 – Processes
Page 10 – Users / Services
Page 11 – System
Page 12 – Summary
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