I think most Linux operating systems come with Python already installed (at least all the ones I use do). It could be uploaded to PyPI, which would mean installing PIP, but using pre-installed libraries would mean you could simply use git (which is usually pre-installed too), and then run `python3 setup.py install`.
> Neofetch supports almost 150 different operating systems. From Linux to Windows, all the way to more obscure operating systems like Minix, AIX and Haiku
You're making a lot of assuptions. Many servers don't have git installed. Some only have python2. Some dont even have that. Not to mention AIX or other non-linux platforms
Ok…but bash is waaayy more common. I could see this if you were making an argument about Perl, since it’s probably pretty close to parity with bash in terms of pre-existing in most environments…but python? No way!
Ah, right, Windows, forgot about that one! So, Windows you’re pretty much always going to have to install something anyway.
For almost all of the BSDs, Linux distros, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, countless others, you’re going to have both bash and Perl interpreters included by default.
I think installing python is generally quite reasonable! It’s just not as ubiquitous, so if you’re looking for a one-stop interpreted language that most people will neither need to install or worry about the interpreter version, then a baseline old version of bash or Perl is a pretty good bet.
Although really awk probably also deserves consideration in this regard, given that you will even have it on embedded Linux where bash and Perl are not. I don’t know enough about awk to comment on its general utility for doing something like neofetch, however.
even in those Windows-centric corporate environments you can push a few buttons to get a Microsoft-built version of bash, even before wsl was a thing, not so for python.
