dotfiles VS pfetch

Compare dotfiles vs pfetch and see what are their differences.

dotfiles

Portable configuration files and utility scripts for Linux and OpenBSD (by Duncaen)

pfetch

🐧 A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh. (by dylanaraps)
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dotfiles pfetch
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0.0 0.0
over 1 year ago about 2 months ago
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dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

pfetch

Posts with mentions or reviews of pfetch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-08.
  • Pure Bash Bible
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2023
    > does NetBSD sh or FreeBSD sh have them.

    Yes and yes. My FreeBSD machine has not even been updated in 5 years, if that helps.

    > What's the point of "pure sh" if it's restricted to specific versions of shells.

    The aforementioned features have been implemented for a very long time. The issues with old versions of dash I mentioned were crashes for very simple things, which is simply a bug rather than some fancy new-fangled feature that was yet to be implemented. Plus, the bible specifically listed workarounds for them.

    dylanaraps has quite a prolific collection of shell programs, and they run on a variety of operating systems. Most notably, pfetch[1] runs on Linux, Android, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Minix, Haiku, macOS, Solaris and IRIX. I assure you that he is fully aware of the importance of compatibility.

    His pure Bash bible even has very thorough warnings for Bash versions required, since macOS uses Bash 3.2 (released in 2006) due to licensing reasons.

    [1] https://github.com/dylanaraps/pfetch

  • I have finally installed Linux From Scratch! (Yes neofetch was necessary)
    2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 11 Jul 2023
    If it has a tarball it can be installed and pfetch does have one.
  • Fresh gnome 44 setup
    6 projects | /r/gnome | 5 May 2023
    The terminal in use is console, with pfetch and zsh-powerlevel10k
  • VanillaOS logo for pfetch
    2 projects | /r/vanillaos | 25 Mar 2023
    If you know pfetch, I recently rewrote it in Rust and also added a bunch of logos, including one for Vanilla OS.
  • SteamOS logo for pfetch
    3 projects | /r/SteamDeck | 25 Mar 2023
    The logo is also backwards compatible with the original pfetch by dylanaraps written in POSIX sh, if you prefer that.
  • Updated Pop! OS logo in pfetch-rs
    2 projects | /r/pop_os | 18 Mar 2023
    If you have used pfetch before, I rewrote it in Rust, resulting in an about 10x faster execution time. It also includes a new ascii logo for Pop! OS that was made by Github user ThomasM92 for the original pfetch, but was sadly never merged.
  • pfetch-rs - A rewrite of pfetch in Rust
    3 projects | /r/rust | 18 Feb 2023
    pfetch is a popular system utility written in POSIX sh that displays system information. I rewrote the tool in Rust, making it run 10x faster. Repo: https://github.com/Gobidev/pfetch-rs
  • I rewrote pfetch in Rust
    2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 16 Feb 2023
    Most of you are probably familiar with pfetch by dylanaraps.
  • Since Neofetch is no longer maintained, what are some good alternatives?
    10 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 6 Jan 2023
    https://github.com/dylanaraps/pfetch is not maintained. No commits since 2021.
  • Lightly Riced, Very Usable Pop! Install
    7 projects | /r/pop_os | 4 Jan 2023
    pfetch

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and pfetch you can also consider the following projects:

neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

cfetch - A simple system information tool for Linux. [Moved to: https://github.com/kluntze/cfetch]

rxfetch - A custom system info fetching tool

xmobar - A minimalistic status bar

polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.

onedark.vim - A dark Vim/Neovim color scheme inspired by Atom's One Dark syntax theme.

afetch - Simple system info written in C

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

fastfetch - Like neofetch, but much faster because written mostly in C.

FiraCode - Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

i3 - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3.

dmenufm - A simple file manager using dmenu