Neofetch is Dead! Here are 7 Alternatives for Your Linux System

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Neofetch is literally a bash script. There aren't any libraries or APIs it depends on, and there is basically no chance of it not working in the future. Some people just like to try and sound smart.

The actual problem with Neofetch is that it's not being updated with new ASCII art for new distros, and not adding new options to show things like a line for display server or other things some people might be interested in. It's just getting out of date in regular boring ways.

That's kind of exactly what I was thinking.

Thanks for the clarification.

Apparently it doesn't work right on ARM systems or something

I have a Raspberry Pi. It works just fine.

I think it's on ampere iirc

Uh huh. You think that some cloud computing processor just randomly can't run a bash script? What, does the uname command not work on their processors or something? That would cause problems a lot worse than just Neofetch not working. I obviously don't have one laying around to check, but I find that highly unlikely.

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