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Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux

For the longest time I did not know what everything meant in htop.

I thought that load average 1.0 on my two core machine means that the CPU usage is at 50%. That's not quite right. And also, why does it say 1.0 ?

I decided to look everything up and document it here.

They also say that the best way to learn something is to try to teach it.

Here is a screenshot of htop that I am going to describe.