Neofetch Discontinued from Linux.. What Now?!

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Neofetch was just archived and discontinued as a project on github. The lead open source developer has chosen to stop contributing to the project and has officially archived it as a project.
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@SavvyNik Ай бұрын

What have you been using instead? (post below)

@cybernit3 Ай бұрын

I started using FastFetch; it is faster since it is written in C not bash script. I guess that might be one reason neofetch is redundant and he closed the project. Ya, quite neofetch is quite a good example of elite bash scripting, much respect.

@VallThyo Ай бұрын

FastFetch

@Blan_11 Ай бұрын

fastfetch

@tjn6278 Ай бұрын

wrote my own a while back called it microfetch. tested it on ubuntu, zorin, mint, deb, ect. never published it. it really is too much hassle to make it work on multiple systems... especially for a noob like me. probably will go with screenfetch so i dont have to add a repo to half the different systems i want to mess with...

@vendetta.02 Ай бұрын

fastfetch

@dannelgutierrez Ай бұрын

For those who want to know, the image that has always used neofetch as a sample is a drawing by Ilya Kuvshinov.

@xavi_6767 Ай бұрын

Bro didn't just touch grass, he also decided to grow it.

@toasterfire Ай бұрын

find it kind of strange people feel the need to switch at all, considering neofetch already haven't been updated in years

@colbyboucher6391 16 күн бұрын

Yeah people are making a bigger deal about it than they need to

@luv2stack Ай бұрын

I am new to Linux. But I need to crop my waifu in terminal. I gave up 20 years of Windows for this.

@SavvyNik Ай бұрын

Haha 😆

@Man-xk9rz Ай бұрын

It is a sad day. No more terminal waifu. :(

@vendetta.02 Ай бұрын

i recommend fastfetch instead

@tjn6278 Ай бұрын

We welcome you and your waifu to the dark side.

@SXZ-dev Ай бұрын

@@tjn6278 IMO Windows is the dark side here, they're all sith lords. We're the resistance lol

@wisteela Ай бұрын

One of the many great things about FOSS is that nothing is ever really gone

@noahjoyner8232 Ай бұрын

yeah it's been untouched for years IDK why everyone is whining

@swozzlesticks3068 Ай бұрын

Because click bait. Neofetch is not gone lmao.

@wisteela Ай бұрын

@@swozzlesticks3068 Not really clickbait if it at least makes people aware.

@schizofren_ia Ай бұрын

Normies just follow the herd, this all started because Brodie made a big deal out of literally nothing

@b0t123 Ай бұрын

Neofetch is dead. Neofetch remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the ricers of all ricers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our battlestations: who will uninstall this bloat off us? What command is there for us to clean ourselves?

@RyanLeman 29 күн бұрын

We must move on. For it is the way of the penguins 🐧. I know these processes are hard to compute but remember, the gc handles occupied memory which will be cleaned in due time. 07 carry on fellow penguins, neofetch what you are will always remain a constant to me :')

@amalirfan 22 күн бұрын

Nietzsche would be proud

@jgn1022 Ай бұрын

I think fastfetch could be a great option for using neofetch instead

@SavvyNik Ай бұрын

Yeah for most Linux users

@Kelticfury Ай бұрын

I was going to say the same thing. fastfetch is indeed faster than neofetch.

@wisteela Ай бұрын

Does look it. I'll be trying it out.@@Kelticfury

@terminallyonline5296 Ай бұрын

It's what I've used to check my memory real quick for a few months now.

@EvelynMakesThings Ай бұрын

hyfetch all the way!

@antinatalope Ай бұрын

It's still available, and stable. Hasn't really gone anywhere.

@samjiman Ай бұрын

Thanks, Dylan

@daviddamasceno6063 Ай бұрын

I'm on my 3rd week on Linux (Mint) and it already feels like I'm gonna miss this. Hope the alternatives will work for me. I didn't know you could customize it so much, I'm gonna have a blast with that, lmao

@JustWhyFFS Ай бұрын

Thx Dylan. You will be missed.

@EriksRemess Ай бұрын

Thanks Dylan

@barkhascherp7746 Ай бұрын

and I just learned about neofetch last week! getting fastfetch seems simple enough though, and as someone slowly learning how to use terminal in my 2 min of free time every week, it could be good practice.

@brainstormsurge154 Ай бұрын

Looking at his list of projects makes me wonder if fff either was inspired by or inspired nnn which is apparently the most starred terminal file manager.

@robertobs30 Ай бұрын

5:35 beware flashbang

@thnlqd 8 күн бұрын

how did bro predict the bright google ad

@stevejohnson1321 Ай бұрын

My favorite was sysinfo, which went away perhaps nine years ago. Neofetch still works on Kubuntu and Debian for me.

@nightmarenova6748 Ай бұрын

Now i use fastfetch with an alias called neofetch in Arch, neofetch will always remain the GOAT in our hearts!

@guilherme5094 Ай бұрын

I'm going to miss Neofetch, I used to install it all the time. o7!

@noubliezpasdevivre Ай бұрын

It will not disappear…

@NabeML 11 күн бұрын

Just use fastfetch

@dennisolsson3119 Ай бұрын

Maybe you do it for clarity or something else, but CTRL+L clears the screen if you didn't know.

@kolz4ever1980 Ай бұрын

I use fast fetch since it's actually maintained.

@mzakyr342 Ай бұрын

bro why you don't want compiling fastfetch?

@legitimo1788 26 күн бұрын

Last year I installed Gentoo just to see the icon on neofetch

@jtsiomb 4 күн бұрын

This does not sound like an essential piece of software. I'm sure we'll manage without it.

@Subh8081 Ай бұрын

I have already CPU-X installed which is a graphical alternative and will be trying screenfetch today.

@wisteela Ай бұрын

I'll have to try CPU-X.

@noname-ll2vk Ай бұрын

Cpu-x is not maintained. Guy stopped. I think he didn't want to update to new grk version or something. Trying to maintain a gui sys info tool is crazy. Needs to many updates.

@Subh8081 Ай бұрын

@@noname-ll2vk After reading your comment, I checked the github page and found that no new features will be added, only bugs will be fixed. Not ideal, but will do for me as long as it is bug free and secure. I checked the last release was 14 days ago.

@zeeskes2502 Ай бұрын

I just have to say its really offputting how you cut your audio having this wierd pause between every 2 words is cutting into the flow of your commentary, personally its difficult to listen to

@philpeko1796 Ай бұрын

ScreenFetch is OK as a replacement. It's funny how much drama-noise this is doing. That's not a real issue. It's nothing like systemd-init war. Move on to an important topic, people.

@commanderdestructa4654 Ай бұрын

Try using screenfetch, it's essentially the same as neofetch.

@hanqnero Ай бұрын

From my experience, output of screenfetch is almost the same, but there is one thing a hate about it. It is that it does not properly wrap long lines. If you have laptop, GPU and APU names get wrapped to new line ruining the logo.

@guppy13 26 күн бұрын

bro went from ricing to growing rice

@softwarelivre2389 Ай бұрын

I personally will continue to use Neofetch. Works well, while distros I test still have their image entries and there are no new package formats, there will be no issue. (Unless somebody finds a CVE in neofetch lol).

@lobotomy-victim Ай бұрын

ah yes cve in a system fetching tool

@softwarelivre2389 Ай бұрын

@@lobotomy-victim that'sthejoke

@ItsCryptic Ай бұрын

just use hyfetch, fastfetch or one of the other many fetching tools

@aaron_the_penguin Ай бұрын

***thanks dylan***

@kozmicluis2552 Ай бұрын

What usually happens; someone forks it and maintains it; occasionally making it better.

@matthewstott3493 Ай бұрын

Umm... Neofetch is an 11,592 line bash script. It's very easy to read the source. Download it and maintain it yourself.

@freedomgoddess Ай бұрын

lmao

@DCM777. Ай бұрын

Indeed.

@SXZ-dev Ай бұрын

nah, just do it in a language that makes sense lol, some kind of scripting language would be fine for that kind of little tool, python maybe

@noname-ll2vk Ай бұрын

That would just compound the error of trying to do complex logic with bash. You'd have to rewrite it into a more powerful language. Nobody is going to do that. If you follow this basic rule you avoid years of pain: once a shell script threatens to get longer than 100 lines rewrite it to a real language. Saves huge work in future. My own rule now is 50 lines. But really the moment you start using functions and complex data structures switch to a real language and move on.

@earincopper9975 Ай бұрын

@@noname-ll2vk That's a thing, though: there's no really complex logic in there. It's almost entirely "grab some text from a place, tweak it a little, print it", for each category. It's very readable, and it's easy to see how things are obtained if you're okay at bash. Also, 6000 of those lines are the distro ASCII art.

@Kneedragon1962 Ай бұрын

Thankyou.

@gannas42 Ай бұрын

All hail Dylan!

@markjones2349 Ай бұрын

This will get picked up by someone guaranteed. Maybe we'll even get some forks and have even better versions.

@codelinx Ай бұрын

Awesome tools... Congrats on the next move🛫

@lenonkitchens7727 Ай бұрын

Fastfetch is better anyway, though you have to acknowledge that it wouldn't exist without neofetch.

@awdsqe123 Ай бұрын

Just use hyfetch, the most based of all the neofetch alternatives

@Prophet6000 Ай бұрын

I'm using Catnip and still using Neofetch.

@willi1978 Ай бұрын

is catnip also for people?

@MadalinIgnisca Ай бұрын

In the free software world, software is not discontinued. Others will maintain it.

@QueueWithACapitalQ 7 күн бұрын

Waiting for someone to fork it to continue maintenance and to name their fork... neoneofetch

@bananaman9869 17 күн бұрын

A sad day for Arch users alike, all that will be left will the be the memories and millions of entries in bash history for each user.

@diuran1919 Ай бұрын

What I see, neofetch is use by youtubers and users on reddit to show their Linux OS and rest people dont use that at all.

@brainstormsurge154 Ай бұрын

I can easily Ubuntu will properly add fastfetch to their repositories since a lot of people will make their voice known to them. I also imagine that some of the Ubuntu people use neofetch so will want it for themselves.

@SavvyNik Ай бұрын

I’m hoping so too.

@morra82 Ай бұрын

Tbh in ¼ of a century using linux, 15 years of it professionally, I've never understood the need of neofetch. I get it's better looking than using uname and cat /proc but I'm not making yt videos

@harshborana Ай бұрын

Well wasent it like stopped updating like 3 years ago?

@SavvyNik Ай бұрын

I don’t think you watched the vid :)

@harshborana Ай бұрын

@@SavvyNik yea sorry about that that was my openion in the starting 😅

@msolace580 Ай бұрын

never installed neofetch, i dont need some graphical picture to post to myself lol. its mainly there so when you make a youtube video you can be like look i typed this command to show i use linux.

@user-mi7jz6cf2 Ай бұрын

First latte dock and then neofetch, wonder which one is next now.

@harshborana Ай бұрын

Well what do you even want , the projects are already completed, why would you even need update for these ? They just work great

@diomeh8373 12 күн бұрын

latte dock died?

@harshborana 12 күн бұрын

@@diomeh8373 i mena it's finished and works fine what do you want to get in the updates? It's already completed

@SimilakChild Ай бұрын

people said the same thing when yaourt discontinued and now theres yay, paru, and all sorts of other ones. neofetch will continue to be worked on through a fork.

@neamupanselutelor7309 Ай бұрын

it was discontinued 3 years ago...

@LeonardoBPG 14 күн бұрын

WTF? Neofetch is amazing!

@PS3PCDJ 26 күн бұрын

Mentioned: - screenfetch - fastfetch

@thecastiel69 Ай бұрын

There will be hundreds of neofetch forks

@hyper.borealis 14 күн бұрын

"how will I tell everyone I use arch btw now????"

@user-eh8oo4uh8h Ай бұрын

screenfetch It was always superior as well. I stopped installing neofetch when it started asking for ImageMagick as a dependency.

@ismailaf3634 Ай бұрын

yo can i try cosmic in a vm ?

@SavvyNik Ай бұрын

Not easily

@N____er 11 күн бұрын

I geniunely had to rewind and do a double take when he said farming LOL

@GWFO Ай бұрын

Fm6000 is pretty good too

@samjiman Ай бұрын

It's already being forked and there are alternatives

@sweetsweetkhajoor Ай бұрын

tbf does neofetch really need updates? it's not really that important compared to security firewalls and stuff like tht

@barutaji Ай бұрын

Like they said in the video, there may be changes in packages, system variables, library versions, etc. So nothing too complicated to maintain yourself if you want to, but without any maintaining it may break some things throughout the years. Nothing serious, but not 100% problems free

@exaq Ай бұрын

@@barutaji neofetch received its last commit 3 years ago lol

@barutaji Ай бұрын

@@exaq and?

@exaq Ай бұрын

@@barutaji and there have been many changes in the things you listed

@barutaji Ай бұрын

@@exaq so that makes neofetch unbreakable? I don't see how it changes what I said

@SamuTheFrog 29 күн бұрын

Fastfetch has always been better and more lightweight anyway

@averagejoey2000 9 күн бұрын

I like hyfetch for unixsocks reasons

@williamcase426 Ай бұрын

WHY??!?!?! NOOOOO!!!! I love Neofetch

@matematleta492 Ай бұрын

Fastfetch is better and faster and looks nicer too.

@RyanLeman 29 күн бұрын

@justahumanwithamask4089 Ай бұрын

Dylan came to the same conclusion as every linux veteran, to take a page from luke smith and touch some grass

@skelebro9999 Ай бұрын

o7 Neofetch even though Fastfetch is better

@dougphillips5686 20 күн бұрын

I'm using fastfetch, and it is fast!

@RM-xr8lq 6 күн бұрын

this kind of stuff happens all the time fork is made and continued by same people

@floopybits8037 Ай бұрын

need alternative for pfetch POSIX :(

@SavvyNik Ай бұрын

Sad

@DevinBidwell Ай бұрын

Why do you put so many breaks in between your words?

@nothingiseverperfect Ай бұрын

Going back to windows

@elliotthedoge9456 Ай бұрын

Then there is no point for me to go to Arch, I mean how am I supposed to brag about using it without the fancy neofetch

@CRYPTiCEXiLE Ай бұрын

i use catnip

@SavvyNik Ай бұрын

Oo haven’t tried that

@CRYPTiCEXiLE Ай бұрын

@@SavvyNik You also add picutres instead of having a ascii art. It looks best in kitty terminal and yeah i'm enjoying it a lot.

@SavvyNik Ай бұрын

Sounds sweet

@brainstormsurge154 Ай бұрын

The terminal audio visualizer?

@NabeML 11 күн бұрын

@@CRYPTiCEXiLE I use jpeg in fastfetch too , and yes kitty rules

@mateusnicolau1710 8 күн бұрын

I don't know what to do with my waifus out of my terminal😢

@hardboiled7467 22 күн бұрын

Imagine "fetch"ing every 5 minutes... Who's the good boy?

@shuccle6161 8 күн бұрын

is there something wrong with my speakers or is there just something seriously wrong with this guy's mic?

@bitterseeds Ай бұрын

fastfetch is better and faster. It's almost instantaneous. We should just pour one out for neofetch and move on.

@PS3PCDJ 26 күн бұрын

1) Neofetch isn't the only fetch script on the block 2) Neofetch isn't even the best fetch script 3) The only reason Neofetch is popular was because of good timing

@asumiluna9066 28 күн бұрын

just clone the repository and continue the project, not that hard

@Kokurorokuko 28 күн бұрын

3:46 It's. Very. Comfortable. To. Listen. To. You. Speak. Like. That.

@SXZ-dev Ай бұрын

Honest question, why are people uninstalling it? It's just a bash script, it doesn't need to be actively maintained and unless someone finds a critical CVE in bash itself neofetch isn't going to lead russian hackers to root status on your machine. There's a ton of critical stuff you're running which isn't actively maintained and nobody bats an eye, but NEOFETCH? OMG rush to uninstall IMMEDIATELY

@kolz4ever1980 Ай бұрын

Yep unistalled it myself. Bye felicia.

@aaaaeeeeffffeeeekkkkssss Ай бұрын

Use fastfetch

@JoaquinVacas Ай бұрын

Fastfetch!

@adrianramos4400 Ай бұрын

you should fix the pausing between sentences that you're doing. could probably be better if you add a little music.

@timmygilbert4102 Ай бұрын

Another pokemon lost to dust

@SavvyNik Ай бұрын

Lol

@webxorcist Ай бұрын

I don't get it. It's a nice thing for these video's, but it adds nothing. It doesn't give any information you can't easily get in another way. Never used Neofetch.

@barkhascherp7746 Ай бұрын

some people digest information better in video format. I love that there are lots of alternative ways of getting the same information, personally

@zach9999 Ай бұрын

*cri*

@lobotomy-victim Ай бұрын

it’s a system fetching tool, it does not need maintaining, it was finished, can y’all finally shut up ffs

@shad578 19 күн бұрын

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@SavvyNik 18 күн бұрын

It’s a sadge day

@shad578 18 күн бұрын

@@SavvyNik yes😔

@amigaworkbench720 Ай бұрын

fork?

@mchi2214 Ай бұрын

come on nik fastfetch is there and much faster than neofetch

@SavvyNik Ай бұрын

But nostalgia….

@QuOUseTERSEa Ай бұрын

`fastfetch` is great but the doc is terrible, I don't want to read it lmao

@jeredek9901 Ай бұрын

Uwufetch is superior

@psychopath_syd Ай бұрын

Use uwufetch, senpai

@bhavyakukkar Ай бұрын

Or you know, just use neofetch? Its not going anywhere and it was dead long before it was archived

@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi- Ай бұрын

When a mofo takes your idea and makes it better. Gotta hit the grass.

@MichaelSharpTechniSmart Ай бұрын

fastfetch is faster

@birdie3189 26 күн бұрын

continue it then, why are Gen Z lazy to contribute to open source?