Neofetch Has Been Discontinued. What's The Alternative?
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- čas přidán 2. 05. 2024
- I just found out yesterday that Neofetch that is in all Linux distros has now been discontinued. So in this video I show how to install Fastfetch which is I think the best option. Here is the link to the website for the install files:
github.com/fastfetch-cli/fast...
github.com/fastfetch-cli/fast...
Other alternatives are Hyfetch : packages.debian.org/source/tr...
Also Neowofetch : packages.debian.org/trixie/sh...
Both are from Debian 13 Trixie but work on Linux Mint, Debian 12 Bookworm and on Ubuntu. - Jak na to + styl
my mom can't use google maps, and this lady makes linux tutorials
If she can use it then there’s no more excuses for me lmao
I just finished setting up Ubuntu for gaming and daily use
LMAOO
opening your browsing history while recording? you are absolute legend!
Granny has literally nothing to hide from NSA
Absolute Chad
@@ohwow2074 gchq however...
Haha I couldn't believe it. She just opened it right up. I don't think that's ever been done in the history of influencing. Ever. 😂
She ran out of fracks to give under the Nixon administration…
Thats unfortunate. Neofetch was my default "I'm bored" program to just stare at. Thank you for sharing this news :)
Fastfetch which is what I have installed is one option. There are also other alternatives.
@@AndreaBormanLike neowofetch, that's forked from neofetch directly (hyfetch)
uwufetch is great 🥰
hyfetch is the maintaned fork, it also provides a neowofetch command as a faitful drop-in, direct alternative to neofetch
@@v0xl That's right. Hyfetch provides the graphic logos and different color text and customisation options, but depends on Neowofetch to work. Where as Neowofetch can be run on it's own. If you have Hyfetch you can run either Hyfetch or Neowofetch because both programs are installed.
You may be one of the coolest grandmas to ever exist, thank you for your work!
Sunday lunch must be so entertaining and informative!
In case you don't know, in Terminal when there's an option for (Y/n) or (y/N), the capitalised option is the default, meaning that you can just press enter
For `apt` she may use -y for auto response this question
sudo apt \-y purge neofetch*-
I rarely use Linux, only on VMs for servers but I didn't know that, thanks. That'll be useful.
I always type a capitalized Y.
Im learning this for the first time. Being using linux for 2 years. Wtff
You are a true hero. I will never forget what you have done for me today Mr harrison805.
It was discontinued years ago, the creator just archived it recently.
Oh I didn't know that. I found out from a video on here. Then when I looked on the web several posts came up that said that it was achieved by the developer on the 26th April 2024. So it's only just happened.
I think Ugric is right. The repository hasn't been updated in 3 years. I wish people were more specific in these videos about what is not being updated and what should be updated.
When utility is ready, why people shout because its not update, how it need to be updated if it is just ready.
@@survivor303Haven't you watched the video explaining why? If you continue running expired packages like neofetch, you are risking getting infected with viruses and bugs. It is not 'ready', it's just abandoned like garbage on the sidewalk fermenting in the sun. Use fastfetch instead. That is not expired unlike neofetch.
Bro she is like an 80 badass hacker gma cut her some slack xD @cerilious
Fastfetch is the way to go. A fork of Neofetch but been updated. Neofetch believe it or not has been abandoned for around 3-4 years already. It only just got the abandoned title. Whereas Fastfetch received it's last update a few weeks ago. Hopefully Fastfetch keeps on where Neofetch ended. Thank you for bringing this news to more people. Some people are just unaware, but it's people like you who bring the news to the masses.
I have found some others on the Debian website. They are for Debian 13 Trixie The Beta version but they did work on Linux Mint when I tested them. Here: packages.debian.org/source/trixie/sh4/hyfetch
Useful information. Thanks I didn't know that. I run neofetch automatically when starting up any shell (not including tmux) so it's good to know there's a replacement.
@@AndreaBorman ah yes also tried hyfetch, another good one.
@@Derpingtonshere There is also Neowofetch which can be run on it's own without Hyfetch. That is almost the same as Neofetch. Hyfetch also has Neowofetch included so you can run both. If you just want Neowofetch only. It can also be downloaded from the Debian website. I put the link in the video description so that people can find them. They are from Debian 13 Trixie but work on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian 12 Bookworm. Here: packages.debian.org/trixie/sh4/neowofetch
it's honestly so pointless neofetch was just a simple bash script or powershell script retrieving basic system info
it was the rare case of bash being the best tool for the job and now you got people rewriting the entire thing in low level languages like c or go
what is next? rust? lmao
okay, neofetch hasn't been updated in years but the script still works, and that alone is a gage of quality of the code, so why rewrite the entire thing instead of just forking the repo and maintaining 10k lines of well written bash (90% is just ascii art btw)
it is beyond my understanding why people would prefer to run big binaries written by amateurs with potential security holes, instead of taking over a very successful project and fixing it's bugs (if there are any)
8:30 It should be noted that fastfetch-linux-aarch64.rpm is not an rpm package for Arch Linux, as arch does not use the rpm package manager. aarch64 means it's for CPUs that run on ARM64 architecture and the .rpm means that it's for distros that use the rpm package manager, such as Fedora Linux.
I had no idea. Thanks for the update. Have a great weekend
@@bbuggediffy no problem, you too!
Yeah, Arch Linux packages are just PKGBUILD built files that comes as pkg.tar.gz
Ma'am, you've just popped in my CZcams feed and I want to say I wish my mom was so tech advanced and conscious. You are awesome. I respect you so much, keep up the good work and please, continue to be an awesome role model for all the people out there 👏❤
(Not saying you dont at all, its nice to be reminded sometimes though) Just appreciate your mom as much as you can, and be incredibly happy you still have her while you do. Time is of the essence & the essence is love, so go give your ma a hug and kiss from her son. God bless you and your mother, man. More life. ❤❤❤
immediately purging neofetch was wild. i love your channel.
she has literally even double checked if this deprecated piece of software was completely purged. Incredible
I did too, strange that everyone have been recommending Neofetch for the past 2 years. All the top Linux youtubers is always installing Neofetch. She's right don't use old stuff.
I don't know why care so much about neofetch tho, it's just a bash script, no way it can be a vulnerability.
@@VolpeJosesk famous last words lmao
@@OpenBASED Eh, if something still has a package in your distro's official repos, it's still supported by the distro. It being discontinued at upstream is a problem for the distro, not for the end user.
Happy belated Birthday Andrea! I hope you had a good day! Love your videos!
Happy (belated) birthday!
Thanks. I did have a nice birthday cake which I bought. I have eaten it all now.
@@AndreaBorman what flavor
@@null301_ mint, because she likes linux mint
@@null301_ cumflavour best
@@null301_ur mom
It is so cool that because of youtube anyone can share their knowledge on anything people of all ages and from everywhere. It is inspiring to see these people make videos. I haven’t rly watched any of your videos but being brave enough to try a new operating system is intimidating for most people let-alone when people get older and more used to certain a certain way of things. You are very inspirational.
You prove that at any age of life there is beauty to life and things to do and people to inspire.
By the way say others saying happy birthday I hope im not late to it but happy birthday.
Happy Birthday Andrea! Thanks for the video!
9:30 The password with 2 letters is definitely a legend! 😆
it's "ab"
It's 😎🥶
My password is name of distro
@@Life_Is_A... probably... on Peppermint OS Live (rescue/install medium), the default password is blank, so hitting enter is enough to login!
@@tridens6708 my password is a secret.
It wasn't worked on for years already without anyone noticing . I did not expect you to be running Debian because of your Linux Mint start button haha
It is Debian 12 with the Mate desktop but I have the Linux Mint wallpapers and themes. Which I always install not matter what Linux desktop I am using.
@@AndreaBorman Nice :D
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Happy belated birthday Miss Borman! 🎂 Thank you for your videos ~!
you are wonderful
Happy (belated) birthday 🎂
Wishing you a long, healthy, and happy life
2:40 Nice terminal splash text. I didn't expect a DDT quote in there.
It's FOSS is a great resource for all things Linux.
Neofetch hasn't had a new release for some time and fastfetch is an excellent alternative.
I believe Toilet is used to make the pretty ASCII OS logos and colours.
The words you say, the terms you use, are very precise! It demonstrates your absolute control over the topic! You are a legend already!
Thank you, Andrea, for the video. Just discovered the channel, and without any doubts, I want to say I'd be happy to have a Computer Science teacher like you in my university!
Liked and subscribed, keep it going!
People think Neofetch is only for Linux. But you can actually use it in the macOS and windows terminal
Yes your right. I just looked it up and found out you can. Here:www.makeuseof.com/how-to-install-and-use-neofetch-on-windows
@@AndreaBormanThank you, I will install it today❤
Thanks for this Andrea. I've recently switched to Linux from Windows and I'm enjoying it so far.
it's super nice and joyfull to see the great mutual respect in the comments between you and your followers. i wish you all the best from algeria.
Fastfetch looks like a great replacement. Thanks for the tip! Belated best wishes for a happy birthday!
Had this lovely video randomly recommended to me. Never heard of neo fetch but I got fast fetch and it’s a pretty fun program! Thanks for the news.
Cheers for this Andrea ! Happy belated Birthday.
oh god, thank you for sharing I did not notice that :(
and also thank you very much to speak about alternatives
I think people should know because otherwise they are using end of life software that is no longer supported. It is best to remove it and find something else as long as it is not part of the system. Which Neofetch is not. So you can install Fastfetch and there are also other apps. I think maybe Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian may remove Neofetch from the repositories in the next LTS version now it is end of life.
Happy birthday! It's really sad to see such a huge app discontinued but thanks for the alternatives
Thanks as always for sharing your content Andrea, I hope you have had a wonderful weekend!
Happy belated birthday!
I love your videos, they remind me of the 'golden age' of the site.
Belated happy birthday*
Just found your channel, amazing stuff! Subscribed and wishing you well.
Great video!! Always happy when I see a new upload from you :)
What an informative and quality video
You make great content!
This video feels so much like the videos I was watching when CZcams was new, I love it!
you're a legend, keep up the good work! we love your videos!
happy belated birthday! I had no idea about this, so thanks for the info! ❤
I love this!!! By the way your computer is really beautiful.
Thanks for the knowledge. Beautiful wallpaper! Good taste
Your video pop up as a recomendation by YT algorithm. I don't care very much about neofetch but I give you my like anyways. I didn't know your channel but you are quite a legend here I see. More than 13 years uploading videos. I wish you a life full of happiness, joy and enjoyment, may you always be surrounded by people who love you.
Honestly a pretty neat, crisp and straightforward reflection on neofetch and its functional alternatives. Great video Ma'am, hope you have a nice day.
This is such a beautiful channel. Last time i was this happy watching was aeeing terry davis talking with such pride about linux software
You're a legend for having a Haswell CPU in your system. That line of CPUs was the best of its time.
BRAVO Seniora !!
🌼
Greatly explained.
Instead of typing fastfetch or neofetch every time in your terminal, you can pop it in your bash config file and it will run when you open your terminal. I wasn't aware of neofetch being discontinued so thanks for making this video 👍
thanks for the post, i follow a lot of people in the software field and haven’t heard anything about this news. glad im subscribed to this channel
I don't mean to sound terrible, but I am genuinely shocked and impressed an older age lady like you used Linux, I am a young guy who knows nothing about it, I just use a lot of chrome OS/android google pixel based stuff, and recently I installed Chrome OS Flex and have been doing a lot of Linux on my other Chromebook, and I'm looking at making some changes and learning more so it's nice to see you make videos about stuff like this because you seem really cool and helpful and I just wanted to say you remind me of my grandmother, thank-you
normally your videos don't apply to me or I already knew about it, but this was actually quite helpful, thank you very much!
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el sabelo todo
I really like your videos 🥰 please, keep making your videos! You are awesome!
Wonderfull video! Just wanted to say that .rpm is related to fedora and redhat based distros, not arch :)
Thanks Andrea for this! Keep doing these videos!
Hi Andrea. Thanks for the update and suggested alternatives. It was indeed a nifty tool.
Andrea, I just have to say you are the coolest person on the entire CZcams and I love you!!! ❤🎉 keep doing what you do !🎉
Please continue to make more videos when you are comfortable. I enjoy your videos. I will share your videos to those that think Linux is hard to learn.
5:00 instead of retyping the command, use the up and down arrow keys. this allows you to scroll up and down and get access to old commands you've typed in
Hahaha I just recently started doing that after having been aware of the capability of doing that for the past 20 something years. Terminal shortcuts are underrated AF lol it makes life so much easier
To be fair though, a lot of folks who have channels like this type it out each time so that people watching who might be new to this stuff can follow along easier to what they are doing. Nothing is worse than being new to this kinda stuff and watching a video and the person is clicking away madly and typing shit into shell at 190 wpm
@@neilpatrickhairlessI'll throw another one your way since you're using arrow keys now. If you want to clear your terminal and start with a blank slate, use ctrl + l instead of typing 'clear'. This way you won't have the clear command in the buffer.
@@neilpatrickhairless And not only Terminal. There are lots of shortcuts that people miss out on. For example, did you know you could close a tab with Ctrl+W? Did you know that you could close a tab using the middle mouse button? You can do that to close a window in the system.
@@sundayylmao Thank you, I personally didn't know that!
Thank you for your content. Thank you for this 15 min of peace you just gave me.
Happy belated Birthday Andrea!
I enjoyed the video; please keep making more of them. ❤
Thanks. I have made some more videos.
Thank you for the neofetch alternatives!
You are my favorite source for Linux news!
I love you. Tysm for the videos! I am a noob, I didnt even know I could find sys info so easily with linux.
Thank you for the information, Ms Borman!
Happy Birthday Andrea!! 🍰🍰
Thanks for the info and the alternatives Andrea!
Aw man, thanks for letting us know about this. Going to miss having it around, was a pretty neat little program. Cheers for recommendation of fastfetch though, going to look into that.
Since my raspberry pi did not come with neofetch I wanted to instale it on, but then I found this video and I was really surprised thank you very much!
Thank you, Andrea... I just in the last year understood what neofetch even is and now it's gone and haha, gosh bless you for the knowledge~!
Just because something isn't supported doesn't mean it can't be used (although it's better if it is)
Great video btw
I don't know nothing about linux but what a fresh type video you made, miss! Greetings!
crazy to witness a old lady making tutorials for Linux she is soldier, the community salutes and respect your work .
8:30 aarch64 means it's for ARM64 processors, not for Arch Linux
Yeah arch as in architecture. Come to think of it, is that where Arch Linux's name comes from as well?
Hey, aarch64 means it is for an ARM processor, not Arch Linux, in the same way amd64 is for an x86_64 processor :-)
Also, happy birthday!
just found your channel and wanted to say youre awesome
Great video! Very informative, Andrea
THANK YOU. USING YOUR VIDEO I WORKED AROUND THESE POLITICS IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES! 👍
I like that you have a reasonable sized screen. I have a small screen too and it works just fine for work and entertainment. And, good video!
You have a funny modt. Thank you for sharing the news and alternatives!
The grandma I need, you got yourself a sub Grandma 💓
You are a GOAT. Greetings from Argentina.
Your videos are very interesting and didactic
Hey Andrea, great video. aarch64 doesn't mean the package it's for Arch, it is in fact the architecture targeted in the build process. aarch64 it's the 64-bit extension of the ARM
Thanks for promoting Synaptic tool, Andrea, it's an underrated gem!
Synaptic is included on Mint and also on Debian. Both distros come with it installed. On Ubuntu you have to install it yourself but that's easy enough to do.
Hello ma'm. It's always good to see Linux being used by people of so many generations. Best of luck on your endeavor.
My birthday was the 27th, hope you enjoyed yours too, ❤ love your wallpaper btw haha
Great video! This is how I learnt that neofetch was discontinued.
Hello Andrea, thank you for the nice alternative!
Thank you!
I will start to use fast-fetch.
This is impressive Ms.Borman keep it going
THANK YOU FOR LETTING US KNOW QUEEEN!
Thanks for the tip! I shared it with some friends.
I can't believe it, thanks for sharing!
I admire your passion for computers. Could you share some insights from your journey in the tech world? How did you get started, and what keeps you motivated?
reddit question
@@idkanymore3382 I don't use reddit :) and this questions just due to curiosity.
@@idkanymore3382 caring about things is so reddit
Lots of useful information, thank you 🙂
U are so accurate with the mouse! Steady hands? I bet you have lovely handwriting. 😊
very informative! Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you so much for the video.
Happy Belated birthday Andrea
Thank you! This was very useful !
Thank you, Grandma. Now I can flex my Linux distro while being up to date!