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Ive noticed its has been any activity in their github for a longtime. https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

There are a few more info that could be added nowadays like Display Protocol (Wayland/X11) and Display size. FastFetch does this but Neofetch is globally recognized.

Fastfetch vs Neofetch

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a million alternatives that do the exact same thing. Fastfetch is just better, since it's still maintained, and not painfully slow. I used to think neofetch being slow was kind of cute. Then I switched to fastfetch, and now I can't bear the years neofetch takes to run.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It takes half a second. Would it help if it played a family guy or gtav clip for you while you wait?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It takes much longer than half a second on older hardware.

It's a bash script, whereas fastfetch is written in C (I think). The speed increase is absolutely beneficial. Fastfetch finishes near instantly on my old Toshiba Satellite.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

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