a couple of months ago, some semi-famous video game vlogger i’ve never heard of decided to get up on the linux soap box and rally his followers to ditch windows.
this was one of those viral-level, meme-type event things, and the result was a literal flood of screenshots of ‘riced’ desktops. and while each of those arch-newbie screeners was different than the last, they all had one common element: a terminal running neofetch.
this article is not going to be about neofetch specifically, but rather about the concepts and commands under neofetch‘s hood. we’re not going to rebuild this command, or go over it line-by-line. instead, we’re going to look at the basic tools we can use to inspect our linux system. by the end, we should be able to learn everything we want to about our linux-like system using standard, built-in commands and files. no neofetch required.
