Neofetch goes Read-only
On April 26, 2024, one of the popular command-line tools for Linux users, Neofetch, became a Public Archive on GitHub.
dylanaraps the maintaner of neofetch stated in their profile README that they “Have taken up farming.“, which led to the archival of the tool.
What is Neofetch?
Neofetch is a very simple command-line tool popular among Linux users that is used to check for basic information on a system in the terminal
Some of the previous blogs, about Fedora 40 and Ubuntu 24.04 both use Neofetch to gather the information posted in those blogs.
With the discontinuation of Neofetch, Linux users have gone to other tools with the same functionality to replace it. Here are some of the best alternatives to Neofetch for you to use.
Fastfetch
An alternative to neofetch that offers a whole bunch more functionality and access to system information than neofetch. Linux users have dubbed this alternative the better neofetch.
It’s available on most distributions including Debian, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro, etc.
screenFetch
A simple bash script tool that does the same thing that neofetch does, and it is easily extendable using bash as well.
It’s available on most distributions including Debian, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro, etc.
macchina
A blazingly fast version of neofetch written in Rust.
Since it is written in Rust, you can use Cargo to install it onto your system.
