Neofetch development discontinued, repository archived

nasal congestion intensifies

It would need to keep up with future changes and any security updates

according to the Asahi guy, it doesn't work correctly for ARM: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111018734178152229

I am utterly oblivious to how neofetch works, but it does seem to need updates to support newer tech.

It still had issues like handling 8-bit colors in ascii art incorrectly last I checked a few years back, with that pr already being a few years old then.

On first sight yes, in reality: no.

Hope they are ready for grandpa's review in a couple years' time!

That's so fetch!

Does it not have a Fedora package or is it just not listed on the GitHub page?

Wtf bro its an LGBTQ fork and not the same thing?

@unterzicht that IS it's use. It is primarily used in show-off posts where people present their systems so that people in the replies can get a quick glance on what they're running.

The reason this is big news is because neofetch was by far the biggest project of it's kind

It's a command that pulls a whole bunch of useful system information and sticks it on one page.

Really, the biggest use of it is for showing other people your system- especially showing off. It's a staple of "look at my system" brag posts.

But to be generous, there are (small) legit use cases for it. If you manage a lot of machines, and you plausibly don't know the basic system information for whatever you happen to be working on in this instant, it's a program that will give you most of what you could want to know in a single command. Yes, 100% of the information could be retrieved just as easily using other standard commands, but having it in a single short command, outputting to a single overview page, formatted to be easily readable at a glance, is no bad thing.

Neofetch is actually a benchmarking tool used by Arch Linux users which compete to show their high scores.

I install it on servers and put it in my bash profile so it runs when I SSH in or open a new terminal tab. Mostly just as a safety thing. It’s basically a reminder to double check I’m on the correct machine/tab before I run any commands.

Thanks for being brave enough to ask the question I was too cowardly to post

It is used to "brag" your system in forums.

It's for showing off your setup to others

It is for the situation "what even is this OS" that aren't answered by uname -r

But since you need to know what OS this is to install this program with the package manager, it's only useful if it was previously installed during the initial setup.

I guess its one of those program every OS should have installed. Like screen.

To bloated

Probably should be rewritten in a more secure language because it fetches important system data

We will continue as usual. I use Arch BTW. 🤣

uname -a should make a recovery as a humblebrag way to print your system info while demonstrating knowledge of a (somewhat) obscure command.

Is there a neoneofetch?

Oh no, what will all the Arch users do?

Install one of many alternatives already present in the repos or AUR?

Awesome is a way longer word than neo :(

Wasn't screenfetch older than neofetch?

I think screenfetch came first, but I'm sure it's fine if you like it. I'm using fastfetch.

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Lol archived! https://github.com/dylanaraps/pfetch