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Does it have to be developed further? Neofetch looks like a finished product.
It would need to keep up with future changes and any security updates
Well, it does its job for now. As for the security updates... Isn't neofetch just a little fancy tool to display data from your system that is already exposed to any process on your distribution? What attack surface does it introduce?
Going by the releases, it didn't need updates that often, but it still needed updates to fix and ensure compatibility as things changed
Security wise, I think you're right
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.
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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.
I wonder which of the many fetch tools support 24bit terminal colours.
On first sight yes, in reality: no.
“Have taken up farming.”
Hope they are ready for grandpa's review in a couple years' time!
Based on the commit messages the last REAL update was 5 years ago.
most popular fork - hyfetch
That's so fetch!
Does it not have a Fedora package or is it just not listed on the GitHub page?
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I don't understand the fascination with a program that tells you what kind of system you're using. I'm not trolling. Can someone enlighten me on its usefulness beyond "yep, that's what my system looks like"?
@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.
This is my use case as well i run neofetch on ssh connect and disconnect so I always have a visual indicator of what machine I'm in.
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Thanks for being brave enough to ask the question I was too cowardly to post
It's for showing off your setup to others
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Pour one out for my homie
Good for him. Cheers
pfetch is nice
Lol archived! https://github.com/dylanaraps/pfetch
oh wow, only 4 days ago
I think it is made by the same author, thus archived at similar time.
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