Since Neofetch died, a handful of command-line tools have emerged to replace it. Some of these include HyFetch, Machine, and, of course, Fastfetch, which is the most popular alternative with over 12,000 stars on GitHub.

If you didn’t know, Neofetch was a command-line tool that displayed system information in a visually appealing way beside an ASCII logo of your system. It provides details like :

OS Name and Version
kernel version
uptime
CPU and GPU specifications
RAM Usage
Shell and Desktop Environment
Terminal & theme details

It was quite popular among Linux users, although it was also available for Mac and Windows. Even though Neofetch was archived in April last year, it’s still useful. Here is how you can install it on both desktop and mobile.

Fastfetch recently got its 2.36.0 release, and here is the change logging:

Bug Fixes:

Trim leading slash for login shells(Shell, OpenBSD)

Preferred SOC name if available over CPU name (CPU, Linux)

Features :

Using kernel API to detect sound devices

Use sndio for sound server detection on OpenBSD (Sound, OpenBSD)

Add minimalist implementation for Haiku (#1538, Haiku)

Support CPU & GPU temperature detection for M4x(CPU/GPU, macOS)

Support VMEM size detection for old NVIDIA cards (GPU, Linux)

Use recommendedMaxWorkingSetSize as the total GPU mem size (GPU, macOS).

Support Physical core count and CPU package count detection for Loongarch (CPU, Linux)

Split ID_LICK when used for distro matching (#1540, Logo)

capitalization (type)’s first letter in custom format (#1543, Display)

Support model name detection for S390x

Support more Armenian variants detection (#1547, OS, Linux)

Support the syntax of {$ENV_VAR} in custom format, which will be replaced by the value of the environment variable ENV_VAR (#1541).

This is another way to pass 3rd-party data to fast fetch beside the Custom module.

Improved performance of Tilix version detection (Terminal, Linux)

Logo:

updated arch_old
Add Nexus Linux
Add file
Update some distribution names

If you’re interested in checking out Fastfetch, here are the installation instructions. The easiest way to get it up and running, regardless of the operating system, is via a package manager like Scoop for Windows, Homebrew for macOS, or APT for Debian-based Linux distributions.

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