gdu
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5recommend
1warn against
Dec 29, 2025first mention
Oct 5, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I have personally moved to gdu (https://github.com/dundee/gdu) as I found it to be way faster than ncdu”
switched from ncduon “Ncdu: An Updated Fork”
“gdu looks nice, I'll give it a try.”
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“I recently came across gdu (1) and have installed/used it on every machine since then.”
“See also `gdu` for an `ncdu` more suited to SSDs”
Caveats and dissent
“I looked at this gdu thing and it uses AI with Claude, so slop code is infiltrating these TUI apps.”
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“I have personally moved to gdu (https://github.com/dundee/gdu) as I found it to be way faster than ncdu”
“I looked at this gdu thing and it uses AI with Claude, so slop code is infiltrating these TUI apps.”
I can't recommend `dust` enough: https://github.com/bootandy/dust
“gdu looks nice, I'll give it a try.”
“I recently came across gdu (1) and have installed/used it on every machine since then.”
“See also `gdu` for an `ncdu` more suited to SSDs”