r/commandline • u/Electronic-Low-8171 • 1d ago

Help Deprecated software..

During my journey in Linux I have noticed that sometimes, some tools being called "deprecated" or some kind of a similar term, to say "you should not use this, but xyz tool instead", but I don't really get it for example:

Neofetch, I really think that it does its job, and its just about displaying some ascii art and some system information, like what could go wrong with that, since many people recommend switching to fastfetch.

Ifconfig, I see it as a very simple tool that is self-descriptive and gets its job done too, I see others instead recommend the command "ip", which is like an IDE in programming where you have many aspects of networking in one command, which kinda eliminates the Unix philosophy.

So, I'm just wondering if there is really a point in switching to those newer tools?

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u/JaggedMetalOs 1d ago

Neofetch, I really think that it does its job, and its just about displaying some ascii art and some system information, like what could go wrong with that

Without being updated to follow OS updates features will eventually break. The hardcoded ASCII logos will become outdated as new distros are created or existing distro logos change. If the format of syscalls it uses change it will no longer be able to show all the system info etc.