The mktemp command on Fedora-based systems and tempfile on Debian-based systems are specially designed to alleviate that burden by making it easy to create, use, and remove...
I use the open source XFS filesystem because of the subtle convenience of extended attributes. Extended attributes are a unique way to add context to my data.
A quick overview is often all I need to determine what is going on with my Linux system. But there is so much more to the top command than meets the eye.