Reid BurkeJan 1, 2025
Reid Burke

Fastfetch

Fastfetch is a Neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying it prettily. It is written mainly in C, with performance and customizability in mind.

brew install fastfetch

Why Fastfetch?

From the README:

  • Fastfetch is actively maintained.
  • Fastfetch is faster. As the name suggests.
  • Fastfetch has a greater number of features, though by default fastfetch only has a few modules enabled; use fastfetch -c all to find what you want.
  • Fastfetch is more configurable. You can find more information in the Wiki: https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/wiki/Configuration.
  • Fastfetch is more polished. For example, neofetch prints 555 MiB in the Memory module and 23 G in the Disk module, whereas fastfetch prints 555.00 MiB and 22.97 GiB respectively.
  • Fastfetch is more accurate. For example, neofetch never actually supports the Wayland protocol.

    • Discovered from looking at this Ghostty post on X:

    https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1873978782811644133?s=46&t=eiFxK1QptUyAmbt9lcSqeA

    GitHub - fastfetch-cli/fastfetch: A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.

    A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool. - fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

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    Jan 1, 2025 at 3:00pmWeb