Ive noticed its has been any activity in their github for a longtime. https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

There are a few more info that could be added nowadays like Display Protocol (Wayland/X11) and Display size. FastFetch does this but Neofetch is globally recognized.

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i hate always having to find out years later some software i use has been unmantained for years.

there should at least be some sort of notification when this happens baked in to package managers

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Yeah one of the Asahi guys was also confused about why people still use neofetch: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111018734178152229

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But neofetch tells you if wayland already:

WM: Wayfire (Wayland)

Actually while neofetch detects pretty well I’m using alacritty:

Terminal: alacritty

Probably they learned $TERM is really meaningless if using screen or tmux, but fastfetch totally misses this and mistakenly shows screen as the terminal:

Terminal: screen

The only thing I like of fastfetch over neofetch is that it’s faster, :) And yes the display missing, but I’ve never considered that something of much interest for such output… To me neofetch is just fine, and on terminal it gives you a more accurate answer… In the end is a matter of taste… But what it does is well done, :)

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Screen is the terminal though?

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No, screen is a terminal multiplexer, like tmux. The terminal emulator I use is alacritty.

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Has the fastfetch dev ever mentioned why they use the infinity symbol? Don’t want to find out later on that it’s a dogwhistle.

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