Fakefetch

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Background

- Fakefetch is the first real program I have ever created that I use daily apart from config - files. I made fakefetch when I saw people complaining about neofetch being slow that is why - I have called it fakefetch. In the start it was just 10 lines of bash echo commands which is - like printing in python, so it was bascially bare theminimun, and I was not proud of this - program I was like ok thats done just add it to my .bashrc and continue using Linux. After - about a day I wanted to see if I could add more to it like the uptime, then comes what - package manager im using and after a while I have made my own mini neofetch program that I - can use on all of my computers. -

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What is Fakefetch

Fakefetch is an alternative I have made to neofetch, it is written in bash script (like neofetch) but is not a billion lines long meaning it is less bloated. In the future I plan to re-write Fakefetch in the C programming language so it is faster.

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Why Fakefetch?

The main reason why you should use Fakefetch is because it is a very flexible program - being written in bash script; it is not a large program, only being one file large and does - not slow down your computer at all unlike Neofetch. Fakefetch is also very hackable thanks - to how I have commented on the code, meaning you can make your own Fakefetch versions and - make it do whatever you want thanks to it being licensed under the GPL, so you have the - right to redistribute it if you make your own versions that you can share with anybody.

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How to install

Step one: The first thing you want to do is clone the gitlab project, you can do - this from the following command.
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/Shipwreckt/fakefetch

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Step two: after cloneing the project you want to run the setup.sh with - ./setup.sh

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To configure Fakefetch the file is located at /bin/fakefetch

Here is an example of fakefetch!