Neofetch Discontinued from Linux.. What Now?!

Neofetch was just archived and discontinued as a project on github. The lead open source developer has chosen to stop contributing to the project and has officially archived it as a project.
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[@SavvyNik]

What have you been using instead? (post below)

[@cybernit3]

I started using FastFetch; it is faster since it is written in C not bash script. I guess that might be one reason neofetch is redundant and he closed the project. Ya, quite neofetch is quite a good example of elite bash scripting, much respect.

[@VallThyo]

FastFetch

[@Blan_11]

fastfetch

[@tjn6278]

wrote my own a while back called it microfetch. tested it on ubuntu, zorin, mint, deb, ect. never published it. it really is too much hassle to make it work on multiple systems... especially for a noob like me.
probably will go with screenfetch so i dont have to add a repo to half the different systems i want to mess with...

[@vendetta.02]

fastfetch

[@dannelgutierrez]

For those who want to know, the image that has always used neofetch as a sample is a drawing by Ilya Kuvshinov.

[@luv2stack]

I am new to Linux. But I need to crop my waifu in terminal. I gave up 20 years of Windows for this.

[@SavvyNik]

Haha 😆

[@Man-xk9rz]

It is a sad day. No more terminal waifu. :(

[@vendetta.02]

i recommend fastfetch instead

[@tjn6278]

We welcome you and your waifu to the dark side.

[@SXZ-dev]

@@tjn6278 IMO Windows is the dark side here, they're all sith lords. We're the resistance lol

[@tiger_of_kai]

Bro didn't just touch grass, he also decided to grow it.

[@flsendzz]

I don’t think anyone who uses neofetch knows what grass is…

[@wisteela]

One of the many great things about FOSS is that nothing is ever really gone

[@noahjoyner8232]

yeah it's been untouched for years IDK why everyone is whining

[@swozzlesticks3068]

Because click bait. Neofetch is not gone lmao.

[@wisteela]

@@swozzlesticks3068 Not really clickbait if it at least makes people aware.

[@schizofren_ia]

Normies just follow the herd, this all started because Brodie made a big deal out of literally nothing

[@b0t123]

Neofetch is dead. Neofetch remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the ricers of all ricers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our battlestations: who will uninstall this bloat off us? What command is there for us to clean ourselves?

[@RyanLeman]

We must move on. For it is the way of the penguins 🐧. I know these processes are hard to compute but remember, the gc handles occupied memory which will be cleaned in due time. 07 carry on fellow penguins, neofetch what you are will always remain a constant to me :')

[@jgn1022]

I think fastfetch could be a great option for using neofetch instead

[@SavvyNik]

Yeah for most Linux users

[@Kelticfury]

I was going to say the same thing. fastfetch is indeed faster than neofetch.

[@wisteela]

Does look it. I'll be trying it out.​@@Kelticfury

[@terminallyonline5296]

It's what I've used to check my memory real quick for a few months now.

[@EvelynMakesThings]

hyfetch all the way!

[@daviddamasceno6063]

I'm on my 3rd week on Linux (Mint) and it already feels like I'm gonna miss this. Hope the alternatives will work for me. I didn't know you could customize it so much, I'm gonna have a blast with that, lmao

[@toasterfire]

find it kind of strange people feel the need to switch at all, considering neofetch already haven't been updated in years

[@antinatalope]

It's still available, and stable. Hasn't really gone anywhere.

[@barkhascherp7746]

and I just learned about neofetch last week! getting fastfetch seems simple enough though, and as someone slowly learning how to use terminal in my 2 min of free time every week, it could be good practice.

[@samjiman]

Thanks, Dylan

[@JustWhyFFS]

Thx Dylan. You will be missed.

[@brainstormsurge154]

Looking at his list of projects makes me wonder if fff either was inspired by or inspired nnn which is apparently the most starred terminal file manager.

[@EriksRemess]

Thanks Dylan

[@stevejohnson1321]

My favorite was sysinfo, which went away perhaps nine years ago. Neofetch still works on Kubuntu and Debian for me.

[@guilherme5094]

I'm going to miss Neofetch, I used to install it all the time.
o7!

[@noubliezpasdevivre]

It will not disappear…

[@dennisolsson3119]

Maybe you do it for clarity or something else, but CTRL+L clears the screen if you didn't know.

[@nightmarenova6748]

Now i use fastfetch with an alias called neofetch in Arch, neofetch will always remain the GOAT in our hearts!

[@matthewstott3493]

Umm... Neofetch is an 11,592 line bash script. It's very easy to read the source. Download it and maintain it yourself.

[@freedomgoddess]

lmao

[@DCM777.]

Indeed.

[@SXZ-dev]

nah, just do it in a language that makes sense lol, some kind of scripting language would be fine for that kind of little tool, python maybe

[@noname-ll2vk]

That would just compound the error of trying to do complex logic with bash. You'd have to rewrite it into a more powerful language. Nobody is going to do that.
If you follow this basic rule you avoid years of pain: once a shell script threatens to get longer than 100 lines rewrite it to a real language. Saves huge work in future. My own rule now is 50 lines. But really the moment you start using functions and complex data structures switch to a real language and move on.

[@earincopper9975]

@@noname-ll2vk That's a thing, though: there's no really complex logic in there. It's almost entirely "grab some text from a place, tweak it a little, print it", for each category. It's very readable, and it's easy to see how things are obtained if you're okay at bash. Also, 6000 of those lines are the distro ASCII art.

[@MadalinIgnisca]

In the free software world, software is not discontinued. Others will maintain it.

[@Subh8081]

I have already CPU-X installed which is a graphical alternative and will be trying screenfetch today.

[@wisteela]

I'll have to try CPU-X.

[@noname-ll2vk]

Cpu-x is not maintained. Guy stopped. I think he didn't want to update to new grk version or something.
Trying to maintain a gui sys info tool is crazy. Needs to many updates.

[@Subh8081]

​@@noname-ll2vk After reading your comment, I checked the github page and found that no new features will be added, only bugs will be fixed. Not ideal, but will do for me as long as it is bug free and secure. I checked the last release was 14 days ago.

[@kolz4ever1980]

I use fast fetch since it's actually maintained.

[@mzakyr42]

bro why you don't want compiling fastfetch?

[@robertobs30]

5:35 beware flashbang

[@philpeko1796]

ScreenFetch is OK as a replacement. It's funny how much drama-noise this is doing. That's not a real issue. It's nothing like systemd-init war. Move on to an important topic, people.

[@commanderdestructa4654]

Try using screenfetch, it's essentially the same as neofetch.

[@hanqnero]

From my experience, output of screenfetch is almost the same, but there is one thing a hate about it. It is that it does not properly wrap long lines. If you have laptop, GPU and APU names get wrapped to new line ruining the logo.

[@softwarelivre2389]

I personally will continue to use Neofetch. Works well, while distros I test still have their image entries and there are no new package formats, there will be no issue. (Unless somebody finds a CVE in neofetch lol).

[@lobotomy-victim]

ah yes cve in a system fetching tool

[@softwarelivre2389]

@@lobotomy-victim that'sthejoke

[@ItsCryptic]

just use hyfetch, fastfetch or one of the other many fetching tools

[@kozmicluis2552]

What usually happens; someone forks it and maintains it; occasionally making it better.

[@codelinx]

Awesome tools... Congrats on the next move🛫

[@markjones2349]

This will get picked up by someone guaranteed. Maybe we'll even get some forks and have even better versions.

[@aaron_the_penguin]

***thanks dylan***

[@SimilakChild]

people said the same thing when yaourt discontinued and now theres yay, paru, and all sorts of other ones. neofetch will continue to be worked on through a fork.

[@harshborana]

Well wasent it like stopped updating like 3 years ago?

[@SavvyNik]

I don’t think you watched the vid :)

[@harshborana]

@@SavvyNik yea sorry about that that was my openion in the starting 😅

[@gannas42]

All hail Dylan!

[@lenonkitchens7727]

Fastfetch is better anyway, though you have to acknowledge that it wouldn't exist without neofetch.

[@legitimo1788]

Last year I installed Gentoo just to see the icon on neofetch

[@user-vz6rh]

First latte dock and then neofetch, wonder which one is next now.

[@harshborana]

Well what do you even want , the projects are already completed, why would you even need update for these ? They just work great

[@Kneedragon1962]

Thankyou.

[@Prophet6000]

I'm using Catnip and still using Neofetch.

[@willi1978]

is catnip also for people?

[@morra82]

Tbh in ¼ of a century using linux, 15 years of it professionally, I've never understood the need of neofetch. I get it's better looking than using uname and cat /proc but I'm not making yt videos

[@awdsqe123]

Just use hyfetch, the most based of all the neofetch alternatives

[@brainstormsurge154]

I can easily Ubuntu will properly add fastfetch to their repositories since a lot of people will make their voice known to them. I also imagine that some of the Ubuntu people use neofetch so will want it for themselves.

[@SavvyNik]

I’m hoping so too.

[@PS3PCDJ]

Mentioned:
- screenfetch
- fastfetch

[@ismailaf3634]

yo can i try cosmic in a vm ?

[@SavvyNik]

Not easily

[@guppy13]

bro went from ricing to growing rice

[@msolace580]

never installed neofetch, i dont need some graphical picture to post to myself lol. its mainly there so when you make a youtube video you can be like look i typed this command to show i use linux.

[@sweetsweetkhajoor]

tbf does neofetch really need updates? it's not really that important compared to security firewalls and stuff like tht

[@barutaji]

Like they said in the video, there may be changes in packages, system variables, library versions, etc. So nothing too complicated to maintain yourself if you want to, but without any maintaining it may break some things throughout the years. Nothing serious, but not 100% problems free

[@exaq]

@@barutaji neofetch received its last commit 3 years ago lol

[@barutaji]

@@exaq and?

[@exaq]

@@barutaji and there have been many changes in the things you listed

[@barutaji]

@@exaq so that makes neofetch unbreakable? I don't see how it changes what I said

[@neamupanselutelor7309]

it was discontinued 3 years ago...

[@RyanLeman]

We must move on. For it is the way of the penguins 🐧. I know these processes are hard to compute but remember, the gc handles occupied memory which will be cleaned in due time. 07 carry on fellow penguins, neofetch what you are will always remain a constant to me :')

[@GWFO]

Fm6000 is pretty good too

[@SamuTheFrog]

Fastfetch has always been better and more lightweight anyway

[@williamcase426]

WHY??!?!?! NOOOOO!!!! I love Neofetch

[@samjiman]

It's already being forked and there are alternatives

[@user-eh8oo4uh8h]

screenfetch
It was always superior as well. I stopped installing neofetch when it started asking for ImageMagick as a dependency.

[@elliotthedoge9456]

Then there is no point for me to go to Arch, I mean how am I supposed to brag about using it without the fancy neofetch

[@floopybits8037]

need alternative for pfetch POSIX :(

[@SavvyNik]

Sad

[@matematleta492]

Fastfetch is better and faster and looks nicer too.

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

i use catnip

[@SavvyNik]

Oo haven’t tried that

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

@@SavvyNik You also add picutres instead of having a ascii art. It looks best in kitty terminal and yeah i'm enjoying it a lot.

[@SavvyNik]

Sounds sweet

[@brainstormsurge154]

The terminal audio visualizer?

[@PS3PCDJ]

1) Neofetch isn't the only fetch script on the block
2) Neofetch isn't even the best fetch script
3) The only reason Neofetch is popular was because of good timing

[@nothingiseverperfect]

Going back to windows

[@thecastiel69]

There will be hundreds of neofetch forks

[@skelebro9999]

o7 Neofetch even though Fastfetch is better

[@justahumanwithamask4089]

Dylan came to the same conclusion as every linux veteran, to take a page from luke smith and touch some grass

[@asumiluna9066]

just clone the repository and continue the project, not that hard

[@DevinBidwell]

Why do you put so many breaks in between your words?

[@bitterseeds]

fastfetch is better and faster. It's almost instantaneous. We should just pour one out for neofetch and move on.

[@zeeskes2502]

I just have to say its really offputting how you cut your audio having this wierd pause between every 2 words is cutting into the flow of your commentary, personally its difficult to listen to

[@SXZ-dev]

Honest question, why are people uninstalling it? It's just a bash script, it doesn't need to be actively maintained and unless someone finds a critical CVE in bash itself neofetch isn't going to lead russian hackers to root status on your machine. There's a ton of critical stuff you're running which isn't actively maintained and nobody bats an eye, but NEOFETCH? OMG rush to uninstall IMMEDIATELY

[@kolz4ever1980]

Yep unistalled it myself. Bye felicia.

[@diuran1919]

What I see, neofetch is use by youtubers and users on reddit to show their Linux OS and rest people dont use that at all.

[@aaaaeeeeffffeeeekkkkssss]

Use fastfetch

[@timmygilbert4102]

Another pokemon lost to dust

[@SavvyNik]

Lol

[@adrianramos4400]

you should fix the pausing between sentences that you're doing. could probably be better if you add a little music.

[@Kokurorokuko]

3:46
It's. Very. Comfortable. To. Listen. To. You. Speak. Like. That.

[@JoaquinVacas]

Fastfetch!

[@webxorcist]

I don't get it. It's a nice thing for these video's, but it adds nothing. It doesn't give any information you can't easily get in another way. Never used Neofetch.

[@barkhascherp7746]

some people digest information better in video format. I love that there are lots of alternative ways of getting the same information, personally

[@lobotomy-victim]

it’s a system fetching tool, it does not need maintaining, it was finished, can y’all finally shut up ffs

[@amigaworkbench720]

fork?

[@zach9999]

*cri*

[@jeredek9901]

Uwufetch is superior

[@psychopath_syd]

Use uwufetch, senpai

[@bhavyakukkar]

Or you know, just use neofetch? Its not going anywhere and it was dead long before it was archived

[@QuOUseTERSEa]

`fastfetch` is great but the doc is terrible, I don't want to read it lmao

[@mchi2214]

come on nik fastfetch is there and much faster than neofetch

[@SavvyNik]

But nostalgia….

[@MichaelSharpTechniSmart]

fastfetch is faster

[@birdie3189]

continue it then, why are Gen Z lazy to contribute to open source?

[@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi-]

When a mofo takes your idea and makes it better. Gotta hit the grass.

[@sardineBro]

f

[@SavvyNik]

Thanks for the f in the chat

[@jean-michelgilbert8136]

Boohoo. Fork it.

[@MagikGimp]

lol Linux desktop is a joke.

[@jimacklaw]

A video about nothing of any Importance. End.

[@ironfistdaw]

why, do you, speak, like this

[@demidermak713]

Good god, your staccato way of speaking is impossible to listen to