Enhance Your Terminal Display with Fastfetch

Conclusion

Fastfetch adds variety to the terminal. Besides displaying plain-vanilla system information, Fastfetch can also show you the individual components' utilization levels and visually enhance the terminal with graphical characters or images. This makes Fastfetch a useful choice for users who find the conventional prompt a little too boring and also want a quick overview of their systems when opening the terminal.

Infos

  1. Fastfetch GitHub page: https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
  2. Neofetch archived GitHub page: https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch
  3. Download page: https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/releases/tag/2.49.0
  4. Documentation: https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/wiki/Configuration

The Author

Erik Bärwaldt is a self-employed IT admin and technical author living in the United Kingdom. He writes for several IT magazines.

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