Mission Center Linux monitor adds battery, memory stats, GPU power tracking

Mission Center, the go-to system monitoring app for Linux, just received a significant update that adds three key features: a comprehensive battery page, memory compression stats, and GPU power draw tracking. The battery page is a boon for laptop users, showing not just remaining charge but also voltage, power draw, time to full, charge cycles, and physical battery details like serial number, type, and energy when full. It even reports information for connected devices like wireless mice, displaying charge percentage and serial data.

For users leveraging zRAM or zswap, the Memory page now displays compression stats, clearly showing swap availability when compressed memory is in use. Additionally, the new GPU Power Draw stat includes clock speeds and temperature, along with a video encode/decode utilization graph—essential for gamers or those running local AI workloads on Nvidia hardware. The update also improves the graphing backend for smoother animations, enhanced the Snap package with core24 runtime, and reduced the AppImage size by using quick-sharun to eliminate FUSE dependency. Mission Center remains free and installable on most Linux distributions.