bestfetch

a customizable, beautiful, and blazing fast system fetch, powered by nim

*more distros and configuration options are supported!

Did I mention it's fast?

fetch	execution time
neofetch	~121.91 ms
pfetch	~62.795 ms
fastfetch	~56.69 ms
nitch	~14.15 ms
bestfetch	~7.73 ms

*mean value of 10 samples per fetch, on the computer shown on the fetches above

link to full spreadsheet

Installing

• You should install bestfetch with your distro's package repository if possible
• If you use a distro that isn't listed here, you can install it with nimble
• You probably don't need to manually build it

Arch Linux

bestfetch is available on the AUR as bestfetch (recommended), or bestfetch-git

If you use an AUR helper such as paru, you can run $ paru -S bestfetch

Install with nimble

bestfetch can alternatively be installed using the nim package manager (nimble)

1. make sure nim (>2.0.8) is installed
2. $ nimble install bestfetch
3. make sure ~/.nimble/bin is added to your $PATH

Building manually

1. make sure nim (>2.0.8) is installed
2. clone this repository and enter the directory
3. $ nimble install -y
4. $ nimble build
5. the compiled binary will be located at ./build/bestfetch

Help

Arguments

Non-Parameter Arguments:
--help, -h          print this dialogue
--version, -v       print the version number
--clear, -c         clear the terminal before printing the fetch
--reset, -R         reset the configuration file to the default

Boolean Arguments:
--icons, -i         (true/false) enable icons instead of labels
--box, -b           (true/false) draw a box around the fetch
--boxLogo, -B       (true/false) draw a box around the logo (requires box to be true)
--roundCorners, -r  (true/false) use round corners (╭) instead of right-angle (┌) corners
--login, -L         (true/false) print your login (user@hostname) in the fetch
--gibibytes, -g     (true/false) round bytes to 1024 instead of 1000 to be more accurate

String Arguments:
--logo, -l          (string) which logo to draw (see all in config file)
--colorSymbol, -C   (string) what to print the colors as (● is the default)
--titleColor, -tc   (string) what color to print the titles as (see all colors in config file)
--dataColor, -dc    (string) what color to print the data as (see all colors in config file)
--otherColor, -oc   (string) what color to print other stuff as (see all colors in config file)

Config

The configuration file for bestfetch is stored at ~/.config/bestfetch/config.yaml and contains the same string and boolean options shown in the arguments above

Thanks

• neofetch - for starting it all for me
• fastfetch - for being neofetch but good
• nitch - for inspiring me to learn nim, and making me love nerd fonts & boxes
• pfetch - for inspiring some ascii logos (however, none were used directly)

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All distro ascii art was made by me. You are allowed to use them in your own projects if you give credit.