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Gerry Patterson. The world's most humble bloggerI came across an interesting novelty item that displays system information about a Linux workstation.
It is a BASH script written by Dylan Araps and available in APT and SNAP. It is a master-piece of BASH programming and will render a logo with colour coded characters on the terminal that also displays information about the kernel, CPU, GPU, shell and memory etc.
I had a look at the script, and it seemed to be a generic. I thought that it could run on most systems that had a reasonably up-to-date version of BASH. At this point, at the risk of seeming partisan, dear reader, I'm going to say that I consider BASH [Bourne Again SHell] to be a great satirical acronym ... Possibly, even in the same class as GNU [Gnu's Not Unix], which also contains a potential fatal iterative loop. So out of curiosity, I copied the neofetch script, as is, to a Windows machine and tried running it in cygwin ... And OMG! It worked! It even rendered the Windows logo in characters. All of which I've gotta say ... Is truly impressive.
At the time I was intrigued and more than a little impressed that anyone could devote so much time and effort to a process that runs in the BASH shell. So, whatever happened to Dylan, even though he might have been subsequently swallowed by the incredible blob of social media, in my mind at least, he deserves legendary status! That's probably cold comfort ... And to add insult to injury, I lost the screen shot that I took of "neofetch" running in "Cygwin", back in 2024.
So in August, 2026, I re-created the lost image of neofetch running on a [W11] windows node [Yes it still works!]... I've included an image below, which AFAIK would have been pretty close to the screenshot I took in 2024.
