Fastfetch
Prints a summary of your hardware, operating system and desktop in the terminal next to a logo, quickly and configurably.
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- Chocolatey
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About Fastfetch
Fastfetch is the successor to neofetch, which was archived. It prints the system summary people put in screenshots: distribution, kernel, uptime, shell, desktop environment, theme, CPU, GPU, memory and disk, next to an ASCII or image logo.
The difference from neofetch is that it is written in C rather than bash, so it runs in milliseconds rather than a noticeable pause, and it is far more configurable: modules can be added, removed and reordered through a JSON configuration file.
It supports Linux, macOS, Windows 8.1 and later, Android, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly, Haiku and SunOS, though the project notes it is only actively tested on x86-64 and aarch64. One caution: several distributions package outdated versions, and the project supports only the latest.
Strengths
- Written in C, so it completes in milliseconds where neofetch took a noticeable pause
- Highly configurable through JSON: add, remove and reorder modules freely
- Runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, the BSDs, Haiku and SunOS
- The maintained successor to the archived neofetch
Limitations
- Several distributions package outdated versions, which the project does not support
- Only actively tested on x86-64 and aarch64
- Purely informational; it displays and does nothing else
- Getting a custom configuration right takes some fiddling
Details
- Pricing
- Free · Free and open source under the MIT licence.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- fastfetch-cli
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Showing off a desktop setup, or quickly checking what hardware a machine has
- Categories
- System monitoring
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (System Monitor); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 3 sources on file.