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Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

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Re: Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

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> Native WinUI–fast startup, light operation Did anyone notice the Windows Calc app became quite slow to startup recently? It takes 2+ seconds to transform from the empty window with a calc icon to the actual calculator UI. I should get Win7 calc.

Definitely prefer the classic Windows 7 calculator, you can get it here: https://win7games.com/#calc

Re: Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

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What is the best, GUI, process monitor for Linux?

They’re all kind of lacking imo compared to btop. https://flathub.org/apps/io.missioncenter.MissionCenter is a good option though

Been a happy htop user for a long time but had never heard of btop, will definitely be switching :)

Thank you!

Re: Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

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post #16
post #14

Nice job! I love the clean interface. Is this written in C#?

Thanks, yeah it is C#/.net9 and WinUI3. I started with C#/WPF, but wanted to get it on the Windows Store and couldn't figure out that would work with WPF.

AFAIK you can publish even Win32 apps on Windows Store.

Re: Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

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post #27
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, yeah it is C#/.net9 and WinUI3. I started with C#/WPF, but wanted to get it on the Windows Store and couldn't figure out that would work with WPF.

AFAIK you can publish even Win32 apps on Windows Store.

I don't mean to imply it's not possible, but I ran into issues packaging with Desktop Bridge and the web started pushing me toward extreme solutions, so I changed course. If there's a lesson here, it's to package early (and know what you are up against).

Re: Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

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Thanks for offering this for free! it looks great-

why are you distributing this as a .msixbundle? Ive never seen that before (perhaps im un-informed though), As I don't have the Microsoft store I was expecting a .exe (and it appears to install a .msixbundle app via powershell ill need to first install the windows app sdk as well - win11). Is this intended? thanks

Re: Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

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post #6

What is the best, GUI, process monitor for Linux?

They’re all kind of lacking imo compared to btop. https://flathub.org/apps/io.missioncenter.MissionCenter is a good option though

btop is cool, cheers!

But I have to ask, do people really use Flatpaks for something like a process monitor? It feels like a process monitor should launch almost instantly. Waiting ~3 seconds for a Flatpak sandbox to spin up just to check system stats seems pretty frustrating.

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