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Monitoring system statuses

Fine-Tuning

If you map a drive letter to an integrated card reader, Mission Center will identify the reader and deliver information to match. You can disable views that are not required by clicking on the button with the pencil symbol top right in the main window's left panel and then disabling the slider for components you don't need in edit mode.

For graphics cards in particular, the developers point out that the performance display is currently still experimental. For example, Mission Center only supports Intel Broadwell graphics chips (from late 2014) or newer. In some cases, Mission Center fails to identify dedicated graphics chipsets with free graphics drivers. I recommend that NVIDIA graphics card owners install the proprietary driver instead of the open source Nouveau module. After doing so, you will see detailed data on the GPU, including the load and temperature, clock and memory speed, and energy consumption.

Conclusions

Not only does Mission Center impress with its state-of-the-art look, it also offers much information that other candidates in the system monitoring field tend to leave out. The application is under active development and some functions are still considered experimental. Because Mission Center is available as a Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage, it can be used independently of your choice of distribution, including distributions that previously did not offer a graphical system monitor.

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