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 guess that is pretty funny, didn’t notice it while writing lol. When it comes to those seams, I think it depends on your font whether it will have seams or not. Colouring the background is more consistent in my experience.
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’ve been using a custom version of paleofetch for NixOS for a while, but I decided to write my own clone of neofetch in Rust when I heard about the archival just for fun.
It has (or I suppose will have) parity with everything neofetch can output, supports dynamic plugins, is super fast bc compiled, and looks up information using asynchronous fetches. It’s configurable via a config file (JSON) to choose what you want to show (I think this is better than using CLI options for this kind of app).
I have the app’s framework/architecture up and running, I just need to finish implementing the rest of the data lookup and add more distro logos.
Once I get the data lookup feature complete, I’ll make the repo public so people can add their distros’ logos and use it, but I’m treating this as more of a pet project, so I doubt people will be that interested in using/contributing since plenty of other fetch programs exist, so I don’t care if it lives or dies; it’s just fun to make things :)
Tenatively named fetch-rs, but I’m sure something like that already exists.
I’ve honestly been using Linux on and off for nearly 25 years, and daily the past 6 or so…and somehow just found out about this, and now my life is changed.
If you have a system with long-running leaky browser instances, Alt-SysRq-F is a lifesaver. It calls oom_kill, sacrificing one process to save the rest.
I do, and used it today as well. My AMD gpu sometimes when booting fails to set the correct resolution on the 3rd display, and that causes the graphical session to freeze for some reason and I have to force a restart with sysreq and start the graphical session with a weird script that sets a custom res lol.
Systemctl edit: create an extension for the unit file and add some changes S edit --full: edit the full unit file (and timer too iirc) S enable --now: enable + start S disable --now: disable + stop
PCLinuxOS, an offshoot of Mandriva (itself the child of the Mandrake/Conectiva union, both a long derivative of RedHat), still avoids systemd to provide a distro with massive versatility and fast boots.
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