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Hello everyone! I know that Linux GUI advanced in last few years but we still lack some good system configuration tools for advanced users or sysadmins. What utilities you miss on Linux? And is there any normal third party alternatives?

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[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

HWMonitor / cpuID / cpuz. One of the frustrating things is not having good driver level support for certain mbs with system monitoring utilities, so you can’t see fans and some cpu stats (like per ccd temps etc on Ryzen processors). Specifically things like it87 boards

[–] PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

HardInfo2 may be interesting to you

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’ll check this out, thanks! I really just need to figure out how to build in the driver level stuff for my chipset. Even this I think just pulls from lm-sensors which needs the low level drivers to populate the appropriate files to read from.