Fastfetch?

[Scotty_Trees]

@dalto

alias yay='flatpak update && yay'

[scott@EndeavourOS ~]$ yay -S fastfetch
Looking for updates…
Nothing to do.
:: There are 2 providers available for fastfetch:
:: Repository AUR
    1) fastfetch 2) fastfetch-git 

Enter a number (default=1): 
==> 

Flipping it around to update flatpak first seems to do the trick! And I’ve never really had any issues with flatpak updates, I just like doing it in the terminal just to see which apps and runtimes are getting updated.

Edit: thanks for the quick help, now let me test this faster fetcher thinger

[Scotty_Trees]

Quick comparison of just some of the differences between neofetch vs fastfetch:

OS: EndeavourOS Linux x86_64 vs EndeavourOS [x86_64]
Packages: 1232 (pacman), 44 (flatpak) vs 1236 (pacman), 31 (flatpak)
Resolution: 1920x1080 vs Resolution: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz
WM: Mutter vs WM: GNOME Shell (X11)
Memory: 1951MiB / 15878MiB vs Memory: 1875MiB / 15878MiB (11%)

Fastfetch also includes system font, cursor type, terminal font, battery capacity, locale language, disk space in / and /home; all pretty neat info to see at a glance. One key difference is the ascii art is better represented in neofetch than fastfetch, a minor grip for sure, but perhaps that’s a bug that could be fixed in a new release I’m not so sure. But in any case, it’s always nice to have options like this.

neofetch ascii:

fastfetch ascii:

You can notice the bottom 2-3 blue rows are shifted a bit too far to the left, so that it doesn’t curve around evenly like it does for the neofetch one.

[sradjoker]

You can send in a pull request with the fix @Scotty_Trees !!

[Scotty_Trees]

You trying to make me do “work” on the weekend?!

[petsam]

I really admire people that are so productive that they struggle to earn even half a second more for more productive work!!!

[keybreak]

To me difference is almost whole second

neofetch

real    0m0,946s
user    0m0,430s
sys     0m0,171s

fastfetch

real    0m0,032s
user    0m0,002s
sys     0m0,004s

That’s very noticeable even visually

[sradjoker]

@keybreak

That’s very noticeable even visually

Especially when some people run it on every shell startup.

[petsam]

@keybreak

That’s very noticeable even visually

I hope you spend this second in a very productive way.

@sradjoker

some people run it on every shell startup

This doesn’t sound very productive. I would let my terminal emulators open, just to not let some seconds get wasted in the dark…

[keybreak]

Sure, you know what they say:

Compile/Execute fast - die young!

[sradjoker]

@petsam

This doesn’t sound very productive. I would let my terminal emulators open, just to not let some seconds get wasted in the dark…

I didn’t say I do it, but some people do. I use fetch apps only for sharing screenshots

[Ben]

alias up='yay && flatpak update'

Though I actually do topgrade after a ‘yay’ update, catches flatpaks, checks GitHub, micro, pip3, snap, anf Firmware.

[Kresimir]

While much faster than neofetch, fastfetch is still about 30-50 times slower than just

cat output_of_neofetch.txt

So, if you really want really fast fetch, run it periodically in the background and save the output to a text file (neofetch > output_of_neofetch.txt). This is how I would do it if I wanted to see this kitsch every time I opened my terminal. Anything slower than that would get annoying quickly, even fastfetch.

[smokey]

Gave it a go, noticeably faster than neofetch, have switched over to it, with neofetch I would open the terminal and have to wait (not long 1 to 2 seconds maybe), with fastfetch it appears almost instantly

[Lemon]

Lekker belangrijk.

[pebcak]

不错，很重要。

[Lemon]

用它来做桑巴？

[pycrk]

أنا محتار الآنالآن

[r0ckhopper]

U WOT?

[r0ckhopper]

Go tapa de réir ainm, agus go tapa de réir an dúlra

[dalto]

@Kresimir

Anything slower than that would get annoying quickly, even fastfetch.

While it is probably hardware dependent. For me, there is no noticeable difference between cat and fastfetch. Certainly, cat is faster and that would show up in a timing or if you ran it in a loop but visually fastfetch is fast enough that I can’t tell the difference.