TL;DR — Quick Summary

macchina is a fast neofetch alternative written in Rust. Displays OS, kernel, CPU, memory, uptime, and more with customizable themes and minimal resource usage.

macchina is neofetch but fast. System info in your terminal, beautifully themed, written in Rust.

Installation

# macOS
brew install macchina

# Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S macchina

# Cargo
cargo install macchina

Usage

# Display system info
macchina

# List available themes
macchina --list-themes

# Use a specific theme
macchina --theme Hydrogen
macchina --theme Helium
macchina --theme Lithium

# Custom ASCII art
macchina --custom-ascii /path/to/art.txt

# Show specific fields only
macchina --show Host Kernel CPU Memory

# Hide specific fields
macchina --hide GPU Packages

# Doctor (check dependencies)
macchina --doctor

Configuration

# ~/.config/macchina/macchina.toml
theme = "Hydrogen"

[show]
host = true
kernel = true
cpu = true
memory = true
gpu = true
disk = true
uptime = true
shell = true
packages = true

Summary

  • macchina displays system info (neofetch alternative)
  • Significantly faster than neofetch (Rust vs Bash)
  • Built-in theme system with multiple layouts
  • Customizable via TOML — show/hide any field
  • Written in Rust — minimal memory, cross-platform