Fastfetch is a Neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying it prettily. It is written mainly in C, with performance and customizability in mind.

brew install fastfetch

Why Fastfetch?

From the README:

  1. Fastfetch is actively maintained.
  2. Fastfetch is faster. As the name suggests.
  3. Fastfetch has a greater number of features, though by default fastfetch only has a few modules enabled; use fastfetch -c all to find what you want.
  4. Fastfetch is more configurable. You can find more information in the Wiki: https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/wiki/Configuration.
  5. Fastfetch is more polished. For example, neofetch prints 555 MiB in the Memory module and 23 G in the Disk module, whereas fastfetch prints 555.00 MiB and 22.97 GiB respectively.
  6. Fastfetch is more accurate. For example, neofetch never actually supports the Wayland protocol.

Discovered from looking at this Ghostty post on X:

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