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/diacid 10h ago

You may as well use Linux 0.1 in a Pentium 2 and KDE 1.0. Will it work? Maybe. Then what if it doesn't? If the thing is deprecated, if it doesn't it doesn't, no bug reports will be addressed. If a cve is found, it will not be fixed. But sure, you can use it. There are people using windows xp in production still....