Neofetch or Inxi? – GNU / Linux

Tuesday, February 28, 2023, Ralph Hersel

Everyone has had a problem with their GNU/Linux distribution at some point. If you can’t solve it yourself, go to the distro forum, ask in dedicated chat rooms, eg b. with us in help roomor find help at Ubuntu usersto arc wikiin Debian Or at Ask Fedora And hundreds of other help portals. It is important to be able to provide useful information about your system if you do not want to be attacked by support staff.

If you do not follow etiquette when asking for help, you will quickly encounter terms like to kidnapAnd necro bumpAnd Bicycle workshopAnd vibration And via post Face. Before you lose interest here, it’s worth reading the relevant forum rules. In most cases, the help forums will provide an explanation of how to make efficient queries.

Most of you are familiar with the Neofetch terminal command. This gives you a little information about your system. This information is not sufficient for assistance requests. You’re better off with Inxi. Depending on the option, Inxi provides comprehensive data about the system. The application has many options to control the abundance of possibilities. Call inxi – instructions It shows you what’s possible.

before I forget; Neofetch and Inxi are not installed on your system by default. This can be done quickly using the usual installation commands. Here are some examples of different distributions (the same applies to Neofetch):

Debian: sudo apt install inxi
Arch: sudo pacman -S inxi
Manjaro: pamac install inxi
Fedora: sudo dnf install inxi
OpenSuse: sudo zypper install inxi

Inxi is better than Neofetch when it comes to comprehensive system information. Before you get the wrath of the struts, you’d better fiddle with Inxi info right away. There is no need to deal with hundreds of options at Inxi. Simply go in and call up the app with that option -F on me. You don’t get all system data, but most of it. For me it looks like this:

inxi -F
System:
  Host: ralf-desk Kernel: 6.1.12-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: GNOME v: 43.3 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP ProDesk 400 G4 DM v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 83F3 v: KBC Version 07.B4.00 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: HP v: Q23 Ver. 02.02.04 date: 07/27/2018
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-8700T bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 1.5 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1866 min/max: 800/4000 cores: 1: 800 2: 2400 3: 2400
    4: 2400 5: 2400 6: 800 7: 800 8: 2400 9: 2400 10: 2400 11: 2400 12: 800
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: Logitech Webcam C270 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.8
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting dri: iris gpu: i915
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: EGL/GBM Message: No known Wayland EGL/GBM data sources.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: Logitech Webcam C270 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
  Device-3: Focusrite-Novation Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2nd Gen type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio
  Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.12-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: b0:0c:d1:59:0b:00
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 32.73 GiB (13.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: BC501 HFM256GDJTNG-8310A
    size: 238.47 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 233.38 GiB used: 32.73 GiB (14.0%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C pch: 46.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 290 Uptime: 4h 3m Memory: 15.47 GiB used: 2.96 GiB (19.1%)
  Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.25

As you can see, this is a lot of information. Depending on the problem, the pros will ask you for more data and will usually call the appropriate command to generate that data.

Starting with an Inxi is always a good idea.

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