Monitoring Resource Usage

Currently I’m almost exclusively using Windows (with WSL2) for both work and pleasure. Having used Linux on and off since 1996 there are things that I miss. In particular I miss the command line, the shells and the environment arround that. It has improved on Windows with the Windows Terminal and some off the cross platform projects coming up.

However, on the Desktop Environment side I’ve missed the resource overview charts that are available in most environments such as KDE, Gnome, XFCE etc. I mean the little area of the task bar where a chart is showing the CPU, network, disk etc usage. I knew that if the Windows (11) Task Manager is open then a CPU monitor appears in the Sys-tray. However, I did not know that if you go to the Performance tab and double click e.g. the CPU activity

Then you get the entire column of activity monitors: