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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13437386

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"Have taken up farming."

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[–] eager_eagle 127 points 4 months ago (1 children)

finally touching some grass

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

nasal congestion intensifies

[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“Have taken up farming.”

[–] steeznson 4 points 4 months ago

Hope they are ready for grandpa's review in a couple years' time!

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago

Based on the commit messages the last REAL update was 5 years ago.

[–] eager_eagle 47 points 4 months ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.

[–] evidences 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why not, it's streets ahead

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Does it not have a Fedora package or is it just not listed on the GitHub page?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (8 children)

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"?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

@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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] Linkerbaan 12 points 4 months ago

Neofetch is actually a benchmarking tool used by Arch Linux users which compete to show their high scores.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Anarchistcowboy 2 points 4 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Thanks for being brave enough to ask the question I was too cowardly to post

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Oh no, what will all the Arch users do?

[–] fedev 10 points 4 months ago

We will continue as usual. I use Arch BTW. 🤣

[–] steeznson 8 points 4 months ago

uname -a should make a recovery as a humblebrag way to print your system info while demonstrating knowledge of a (somewhat) obscure command.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Neofetch reloaded. followed by neofetch revolutions.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh no, what will all the Arch users do?

Install one of many alternatives already present in the repos or AUR?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Good for him. Cheers

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Pour one out for my homie

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[–] Feathercrown 14 points 4 months ago

Have taken up farming.

It keeps happening

[–] ForgottenUsername 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I think screenfetch came first, but I'm sure it's fine if you like it. I'm using fastfetch.

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[–] Asudox 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Asudox 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think it is made by the same author, thus archived at similar time.

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