



There are many alternatives to Hardinfo for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Mission Center, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Hardinfo and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Hardinfo are Resources, CPU-X (by X0rg), hardinfo2 and lshw.




Resources is a simple yet powerful monitor for your system resources and processes, written in Rust and using GTK 4 and libadwaita for its GUI.




CPU-X is a free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more.




Hardinfo2 is based on hardinfo, which have not been released >10 years. Hardinfo2 is the reboot that was needed.






lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine.



CPU Info provide main information about hardware and software of your device. You can get:




hwinfo/libhd are used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.

Heaps of well laid out information


cpufetch is a command-line tool written in C that displays the CPU information in a clean and beautiful way.




GST is a GTK system utility designed to stress and monitor various hardware components like CPU and RAM.

Inxi is a system information script that can display various things about your hardware and software to users in an irc chatroom or support forum. it runs with the /exec command in most irc clients.

Hardware Probe Tool (hw-probe) is a snapshot of your computer's hardware state and logs. The tool checks operability of devices by analysis of logs and returns a permanent url to view the probe of the computer.


Hardinfo2 is based on hardinfo