Now fastfetch is my new friend
Why are everyone suddenly aware that Neochat is unmaintained. I mean, the last commit was 3 years ago and the last release alsmost 4 years ago. Just because the git repository got archived on a date does not mean that it was maintained up to that point.
Most people aren’t going around checking the commit history on every piece of software they use. The git repository being archived made the Linux news rounds, so now a bunch of people are newly aware. It’s not complicated.
How does that make it dead?
Do they just need to update it for the sake of updating it?
I don’t get people being worried about an offline application designed to run one shot as the current user not receiving updates. I do get maintainers dropping the package from package repos now that it is officially archived though…
Libraries and APIs are a moving target. Eventually it won’t run on modern systems anymore without modification.
Yeah, but if it hasn’t reached that point then is it really dead?
Edit: Instead of downvoting me, consider this. What if the only update this program receives in years is one to make sure its still compatible with the libraries and APIs you refer to? Would that make it alive, or dead?
It seems like you guys are advocating for updating just for the sake of updating, also bandwagoning a bit.
Neofetch is literally a bash script. There aren’t any libraries or APIs it depends on, and there is basically no chance of it not working in the future. Some people just like to try and sound smart.
The actual problem with Neofetch is that it’s not being updated with new ASCII art for new distros, and not adding new options to show things like a line for display server or other things some people might be interested in. It’s just getting out of date in regular boring ways.
Apparently it doesn’t work right on ARM systems or something
I have a Raspberry Pi. It works just fine.
I think it’s on ampere iirc
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Neofetch is only dead if y’all let it die. Same as Hexchat.
I had no idea ppl actually cared about any fetches, not like it stopped working though. Just a guess but it’ll work for a good while, because it’s a damn fetch script:D
I tried fastfetch which was very fast, but didn’t work correctly for me. It told me I had 16 flatpaks installed, but I don’t even have flatpak! On another preset it gave the wrong number of pacman packages installed. The coloured bars also rendered with visible seams in between because it uses characters instead of colouring the background. It also didn’t show my terminal font at all. I can’t open issues because I didn’t bother to activate 2fa on my github account. I ended up writing a simple fetch for fun, it shows pacman and rust packages, learned a few things about terminal escape codes.
[…] I didn’t bother to activate 2fa on my github account. I ended up writing a simple fetch for fun, …
I’m not judging, but reading those two lines back to back is pretty funny.
Also good to know what causes those seams. I’ve noticed it in some consoles, but never bothered to check why exactly that is.
