I've written in the past about how I switched from neofetch to fastfetch. I'm sure there are other, perhaps equally good or better, alternatives to neofetch, but I've settled on fastfetch. And perhaps for good reason. As I use both and then sit them …
I've written in the past about how I switched from neofetch to fastfetch. I'm sure there are other, perhaps equally good or better, alternatives to neofetch, but I've settled on fastfetch. And perhaps for good reason. As I use both and then sit them side-by-side and compare their outputs, the differences between the two, and the errors I found on neofetch, are apparent. In addition fastfetch provides more information due to its deeper inquiry into the system it's run on. For one example, consider the package count, both dpkg and snap.
Snap package listing
When I do an apt list --installed | wc -l I get a count of 1768. Wait, you say. That's one more than what fastfetch shows. No, unfortunately when you perform apt list --installed | less and look at the very first line, it's Listing.... Which if subtracted from the total gives you 1767. The value in fastfetch. If you look at a snap listing of installed packages (see above), you'll see it lists only 10 packages. For fastfetch, the apt and snap package listings are correct. For neofetch neither one is correct, and the apt package count is wildly off.
Let me repeat what I've already said a number of times: neofetch is dead, and having it in a distro's repositories is almost a criminal act. neofetch hasn't been updated in nearly three years. Support for fastfetch is robust ongoing and it would appear far less buggy. fastfetch's current release is 2.18.1. Time to move on, folks.
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