Why do we need widgets with the current performance of the system?

Question

linux

Today, once again, a post about a beautiful desktop appeared in the lifehacker.com rss feed, and again I see a widget in the screenshot with indicators of data reception and transmission, CPU usage, RAM, and other things.
According to my observations, Linux users are more likely to suffer from this, less often Windows / Poppy. There are also a bunch of widgets for Android.
I just can’t understand one thing, why do you need to know and see all this information? What does she give people?
Based on what I've seen around computers in my life, more often they work fine than they don't. So what's the difference what the processor is busy with? Why know what is consuming RAM? Why display data transfer schedules when everyone has unlimited megabit Internet? I really don't understand. If anyone uses these widgets, can you tell me why you need them?

Answer 1

Usually, with the experience of owning a computer, this nonsense disappears.

Answer 2

To amuse your heart

Answer 3

It is completely incomprehensible why this is necessary, given that if you are busy with something at your computer, then the desktop is blocked by working software (editor / browser / game), and if not, then what's the point of sitting and staring?

Answer 4

When you work as a system administrator, it is very important to know how much your computer / server is loaded, for example, in order to increase the number of equipment in time and not lose customers. Such widgets show just this information.
Also, through them you can see what "loads" the system the most.

Answer 5

If you have a weak computer, it is interesting to know when it is loaded at 100%, and when it just "stupid", or to find out when it starts to "stupid".
When you have a normal machine with enough memory, you don't care about all these parameters, since everything works well.
As for me, this is redundant information that is posted because "it is possible." Once upon a time I used it, now if I know what to open to see, but in most it is not necessary.

Answer 6

On the desktop, these widgets are absolutely useless, because in order to find out the indicators, you will have to minimize the windows, and this is not sickly so load the percent :-)
I have the necessary indicators in the tray, but this is not loading the processor or RAM.

Answer 7

Well, for example, such things help me to see at a glance (widgets on the panel, of course) whether I can now launch another virtual machine or the memory has run out and I need to cut something down.
When running on battery, the CPU load graph in front of your eyes saves half the battery;)

Answer 8

This is a simplified form of analytics. At a later stage of development, there are already heavier systems for monitoring. So wanting to know what's going on with the system in real time... that's fine.

Answer 9

Applications now eat a lot of memory and processor. The browser, for example, often takes up all 4 GB of RAM. Sometimes you need to know how much free resources there are before launching the next application.
Network speed is useful with a weak PC (or a slow Internet) and running applications with "unmanaged" traffic (all sorts of updates, torrents, DC ++), when you don't know for sure if something is downloading at that moment and there is a free bandwidth.
I do not use widgets, but the task manager is often running.

Answer 10

Remove programs that eat memory and don't worry about system performance. Or get a good laptop with good parameters.