Linux utility Neofetch: Development now officially discontinued, what alternatives are available?

If you wanted to share a screenshot of your carefully configured Linux desktop with other users, you usually used Neofetch to provide your own system information. But on 26 April, Neofetch developer Dylan Araps officially announced the end of the command-line tool: He's now doing farming, as Araps' GitHub page briefly states.

The end of Neofetch's development is not entirely unexpected, however, as the last change to the source code was made three years ago. If you still want to use the tool to display information such as your distribution, kernel and desktop interface alongside an ASCII logo, you can of course continue to do so. However, there are a number of alternatives that are actively being developed.

What are the alternatives to Neofetch?

Unlike Neofetch, which is a Bash script, Fastfetch is designed to run much more efficiently because it is written in C. Fastfetch is currently under active development and is available for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS and Android. By default, Fastfetch provides slightly more system information than Neofetch and should be available for installation directly from the repositories of many Linux distributions.

Another alternative is HyFetch, a direct fork of Neofetch with Pride colours. In addition to the command line call via "hyfetch", "neowofetch" can also be used. The HyFetch developer would like to provide an actively developed Neofetch counterpart with "neowofetch". There are also a number of other "fetch" terminal utilities, such as for example Nerdfetch.