If this is already familiar to most/all of you pardon my excitement! I have always been interested in the ways to get info about PC hardware. ( using "cat" on various bizarre files in /proc/.... ) "dmesg" output ...so much more. Today I finally ran into inxi. One interesting flag/arg is -x ..extra level(s) of output for various options. -xx : double extra info. -xxx : triple extra info. Trivia: inxi --help outputs 549 lines on my Mint 22.2 man inxi is almost 3000 lines long..w big thanks to contributors at the end. It's a perl script! /usr/bin/ixni is over 38,000 lines long. One common choice of flags for a big picture is: inxi -Fs Here's a few sample outputs on 2011 Lenovo Thinkpad with the original SSD and original oversized battery: doug0@X230:~$ inxi -Dxxx Drives: Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 37.2 GiB (31.2%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZ7PC128HAFU-000L1 size: 119.24 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: S0U8NSAC532113 fw-rev: 4L1Q scheme: MBR doug0@X230:~$ inxi -Bxxx Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.1 Wh (99.3%) condition: 28.3/86.6 Wh (32.7%) volts: 12.1 min: 11.1 model: LGC 45N1029 type: Li-ion serial: 8428 status: not charging Above, i had charger plugged in but it was fully charged =="not charging". Below, after I unplugged charger, interesting to see "power" on batt: doug0@X230:~$ inxi -Bxxx Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.1 Wh (99.3%) condition: 28.3/86.6 Wh (32.7%) power: 6.9 W volts: 11.8 min: 11.1 model: LGC 45N1029 type: Li-ion serial: 8428 status: discharging
"Doug" == Doug Mildram via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
If this is already familiar to most/all of you pardon my excitement!
Nope, very first time I've heard of this! I usually use just the basics: lshw lspci blkid lsscsi lsusb lscpu (new to me...) uname -a cat /etc/os-release (only on distros in past 10 years usually?) But this is a great thing to share! John
I have always been interested in the ways to get info about PC hardware. ( using "cat" on various bizarre files in /proc/.... ) "dmesg" output ...so much more.
Today I finally ran into inxi. One interesting flag/arg is -x ..extra level(s) of output for various options. -xx : double extra info. -xxx : triple extra info.
Trivia: inxi --help outputs 549 lines on my Mint 22.2
man inxi is almost 3000 lines long..w big thanks to contributors at the end.
It's a perl script! /usr/bin/ixni is over 38,000 lines long.
One common choice of flags for a big picture is: inxi -Fs
Here's a few sample outputs on 2011 Lenovo Thinkpad with the original SSD and original oversized battery:
doug0@X230:~$ inxi -Dxxx Drives: Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 37.2 GiB (31.2%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZ7PC128HAFU-000L1 size: 119.24 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: S0U8NSAC532113 fw-rev: 4L1Q scheme: MBR
doug0@X230:~$ inxi -Bxxx Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.1 Wh (99.3%) condition: 28.3/86.6 Wh (32.7%) volts: 12.1 min: 11.1 model: LGC 45N1029 type: Li-ion serial: 8428 status: not charging
Above, i had charger plugged in but it was fully charged =="not charging". Below, after I unplugged charger, interesting to see "power" on batt: doug0@X230:~$ inxi -Bxxx Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.1 Wh (99.3%) condition: 28.3/86.6 Wh (32.7%) power: 6.9 W volts: 11.8 min: 11.1 model: LGC 45N1029 type: Li-ion serial: 8428 status: discharging _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/QQKH4M...
Another one I've seen going around on the forums: fastfetch It shows a cute color ASCII logo of your OS followed by system info. Here is the Fedora logo: .',;::::;,'. .';:cccccccccccc:;,. .;cccccccccccccccccccccc;. .:cccccccccccccccccccccccccc:. .;ccccccccccccc;.:dddl:.;ccccccc;. .:ccccccccccccc;OWMKOOXMWd;ccccccc:. .:ccccccccccccc;KMMc;cc;xMMc;ccccccc:. ,cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cc;;WW:;cccccccc, :cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc: :ccccccc;oxOOOo;MMM000k.;cccccccccccc: cccccc;0MMKxdd:;MMMkddc.;cccccccccccc; ccccc;XMO';cccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc' ccccc;MMo;ccccc;MMW.;ccccccccccccccc; ccccc;0MNc.ccc.xMMd;ccccccccccccccc; cccccc;dNMWXXXWM0:;cccccccccccccc:, cccccccc;.:odl:.;cccccccccccccc:,. ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc:'. :ccccccccccccccccccccccc:;,.. ':cccccccccccccccc::;,. On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 03:51:51PM -0500, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote:
"Doug" == Doug Mildram via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
If this is already familiar to most/all of you pardon my excitement!
Nope, very first time I've heard of this! I usually use just the basics:
lshw lspci blkid lsscsi lsusb lscpu (new to me...) uname -a cat /etc/os-release (only on distros in past 10 years usually?)
But this is a great thing to share! John
For other recentish Windows expats like me that miss hwinfo64, I recently discivered OCCT (https://www.ocbase.com/download). It's a good way to get similar information out of a GUI like hwinfo64 presented. -------- Original Message -------- On Monday, 12/15/25 at 08:25 Chuck Anderson via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote: Another one I've seen going around on the forums: fastfetch It shows a cute color ASCII logo of your OS followed by system info. Here is the Fedora logo: .',;::::;,'. .';:cccccccccccc:;,. .;cccccccccccccccccccccc;. .:cccccccccccccccccccccccccc:. .;ccccccccccccc;.:dddl:.;ccccccc;. .:ccccccccccccc;OWMKOOXMWd;ccccccc:. .:ccccccccccccc;KMMc;cc;xMMc;ccccccc:. ,cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cc;;WW:;cccccccc, :cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc: :ccccccc;oxOOOo;MMM000k.;cccccccccccc: cccccc;0MMKxdd:;MMMkddc.;cccccccccccc; ccccc;XMO';cccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc' ccccc;MMo;ccccc;MMW.;ccccccccccccccc; ccccc;0MNc.ccc.xMMd;ccccccccccccccc; cccccc;dNMWXXXWM0:;cccccccccccccc:, cccccccc;.:odl:.;cccccccccccccc:,. ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc:'. :ccccccccccccccccccccccc:;,.. ':cccccccccccccccc::;,. On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 03:51:51PM -0500, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote:
"Doug" == Doug Mildram via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
If this is already familiar to most/all of you pardon my excitement!
Nope, very first time I've heard of this! I usually use just the basics:
lshw lspci blkid lsscsi lsusb lscpu (new to me...) uname -a cat /etc/os-release (only on distros in past 10 years usually?)
But this is a great thing to share! John
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