Analysis updated 2026-05-18
Share your system specs in forums or chat when asking for technical help.
Create a personalized terminal welcome screen that displays every time you open a shell.
Quickly check your hardware and software configuration without opening system settings.
Monitor key system metrics like CPU, memory, and disk usage at a glance.
| fastfetch-cli/fastfetch | timescale/timescaledb | samypesse/how-to-make-a-computer-operating-system | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 22,509 | 22,571 | 22,411 |
| Language | C | C | C |
| Setup difficulty | easy | moderate | easy |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 3/5 | 4/5 |
| Audience | developer | developer | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Fastfetch is a command-line tool that gathers information about your computer system and displays it in a colorful, visually organized format in your terminal. Think of it as a "system stats at a glance" screen that shows things like your operating system, CPU, memory usage, disk space, screen resolution, and other hardware and software details, all formatted neatly with your machine's logo rendered in text art. It works by querying your computer's operating system and hardware directly, then formatting that data through a customizable configuration file (written in JSONC, a variant of JSON with comments). You control which pieces of information appear and how they look. Each category of info is called a "module," and you can enable or disable them individually. People use this tool when they want a quick snapshot of their system specs, for example, when sharing system info in a forum or chat to get technical help, or just because they enjoy having a personalized terminal welcome screen. It is the actively developed successor to a similar tool called neofetch, which is no longer maintained. The tool is written in C for speed, and runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, FreeBSD, and several other operating systems. It installs through standard package managers on each platform.
A fast command-line tool that displays your computer's system information (OS, CPU, memory, disk, etc.) in a colorful, formatted terminal output with ASCII art.
Mainly C. The stack also includes C, Linux, macOS.
Use freely for any purpose including commercial, as long as you keep the copyright notice.
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
This repo across BitVibe Labs
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