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Neofetch is dead

There are many viable forks of Neofetch, including Hyfetch (pictured), which can display your system information using pride colours.
CREDIT: Frame.work, Canonical

On 26th April, Dylan Araps, creator of Neofetch, archived the GitHub repository for the project.This didn’t come as much of a surprise to the community, as the utility has only been updated infrequently in the past few years. Araps updated the Readme file on GitHub to say that he has “taken up farming”.

Currently, the utility is available in the repositories of popular distros such as Ubuntu. If you need a futureproof method to display system information in a colourful way, we recommend Hyfetch, a well-maintained direct fork of Neofetch.

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