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How To Watch Star Wars in Terminal (Windows, Linux, Mac OS)

Star Wars is one of the most popular Sci-Fi movie movie franchise in the history of cinema.  If you are one of its hard core fans, perhaps you won't mind watching it again.  But it won't be HD or BlueRay edition. In terms of graphics, it's nowhere close to what you would expect but still fun nonetheless. Instead, it will be in ASCII format. You can watch it on Windows, Mac Os and Linux or any OS that supports Telnet. I'll also show you a few tricks that will make it ore colourful. Telnet is a network protocol used to connect to another host or someone else's computer. On Windows Telnet is disable by default, so you need to enable it in the control panel. If you don't have telnet, you can install it using the following command in your command line then press enter. pkgmgr /iu:"TelnetClient" If asked for administrator permissions, enter your password and confirm access. Restart the command prompt and then type in the following

Display Linux/Mac OS Distribution Logo in ASCII Art in Terminal

There are 2 tools which are commonly used to display Linux distribution Logo in the Linux Terminal. Neofetch Screenfetch The main purpose of these tools is to be used in screenshots to show other users what OS/distribution you're running as well as the themes and icons you're using. These tools also display a lot more than just the logo. They provide the following information about your system. System Model Screen Resolution Linux Kernel Version Desktop Environment Uptime Windows Manager Packages Themes and Icons Shell Version Terminal Tool in use CPU, GPU and RAM information Most Linux distributions are covered here, in case yours is not please feel free to visit their  Wiki page NEOFETCH It is a command-line system information tool written in BASH that displays information about your system next to an image, your OS logo or any ASCII file of your choice. This tool can also be used in Linux, MacOS,iOS, Android, Haiku, GNU Hurd,