Neofetch development discontinued, repository archived

nasal congestion intensifies

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?

@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 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?

F

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

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