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Re: Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

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Post by Daunk » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 1:13 AM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #25

Daunk wrote: post #6

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

I really like Resources: https://flathub.org/apps/net.nokyan.Resources https://github.com/nokyan/resources

I'll ask you the same as below: "... 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."

Re: Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

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Post by pragmar » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 2:46 AM UTC

bobbob1921 wrote: post #29

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

I'm distributing msix (msixbundle) because it allows me to package a downloadable installer and a windows store upload. You should be able to double click the msixbundle to run the installer, powershell isn't necessary.

MSIX installers feel a bit odd, I think, because they're far less common than either msi or self extracting exe. They also virtualize the app. MSIX apps, for example, can't write to the canonical registry. It's not all upside, but it works well for my projects.

The SDK install is expected (if not already installed). It should hopefully have been automatically downloaded during the install process.

Re: Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

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Post by dr_kiszonka » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 3:52 AM UTC

Off-topic: Is it possible to tell your InterroBot how many levels (or degrees) of outlinks to follow?

Re: Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

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Post by pragmar » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 3:38 PM UTC

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #33

Off-topic: Is it possible to tell your InterroBot how many levels (or degrees) of outlinks to follow?

It's not configurable right now, but I have seen the feature in other products. If you want to chat about it off-thread, there's a contact form in the options page. Happy to chat.