



Mission Center vs hwinfo Comments

- Mission Center is Free and Open Source
- Mission Center is Lightweight and Privacy focused
There are many alternatives to hwinfo for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Linux alternative is Mission Center, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to hwinfo and loads of them are free and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Linux alternatives to hwinfo are GNOME Disks, Resources, Neofetch and CPU-X (by X0rg).





Efficiently manage disk functions like inspecting, partitioning, and formatting. Utilize disk imaging and backup, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, and encryption. Integrates well with Linux, particularly GNOME, offering RAID setups and benchmarking tools, compatible with various file systems.

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.




Neofetch is a command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+. Neofetch displays information about your operating system, software and hardware in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way.


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








Hardinfo is a system information and benchmark tool for Linux. It shows detailed system info, including hardware, environment, and kernel. It can use lm_sensors and ACPI for temperature and battery information. It also has four CPU banchmarks and two FPU benchmarks.



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.



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








Simple command-line tool that displays your distro's logo in text art form, your OS version, your kernel version, your CPU, GPU, and RAM, your DE, resolution, WM, themes, and shell type, and more.

easy to install and use for newbies on arch