Solved best way to retrieve detailed and accurate device information on Linux: inxi, lsblk and lshw` for hardware, `lscpu`- to get as much info as possible!?

[dhubs]

good day dear friends,

[update: solved yet due to the awesome results - thanks alot ]


I think the console is the best way to retrieve detailed and accurate device information on Linux.

that said i think that the tool inxi should provide a quick, general overview. For specific, in-depth details, there are specialized commands—such as lshw for hardware, lscpu for the processor, and lsblk for drives.

Question: Will that also show me the exact device model—for example, that it's a specific ThinkPad?
So the question is: can i get with the above mentioned commands detailed information like

this is a E-14 Lenvo-Notebook with Gen 6 or Gen 7 AMD Ryzen CPU - is this correct -does the above mentioned command give out such detailed infos!?

look forward to hear from you


regards

 

[CaffeineAddict]

all you need it inxi, it has many options, you should study them
see commands in my signature to find more.

 

[dos2unix]

A lot of it just comes down to personal preference.

I dont have anything against inxi, but I prefer lshw and hardinfo.
But I tend to do things the hard way. I use lspci and lsusb.

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

Will give you more detailed info than any of the tools above.

sudo libinput list-devices

Can also be handy.

 

[Brickwizard]

I prefer INXI , ok I will admit to being slightly bias being one of several Linux org members who ran the final test before release

 

[MikeRocor]

A lot of it just comes down to personal preference.

I dont have anything against inxi, but I prefer lshw and hardinfo.
But I tend to do things the hard way. I use lspci and lsusb.

Me too. Doing things the hard way comes naturally to me, for some reason, but I try to be thorough, too. Whenever I get a new_to_me junk computer, one of the things I regularly do is run a suite of "info" utilities on it, including

• sudo lshw
• sudo dmidecode
• sudo hardinfo
• cpuinfo
• lspci
• lsusb
• meminfo
• neofetch
• inxi -Fx

and logging the output of each to a file in my zettelkasten-ish postit note repository so that I can access it easily (a la the lines beginning with "shrek" in the attached window shot) even if the system in question is powered off or otherwise off line.

I know the results of all those utilities have a lot of redundancy but sometimes it's just easier for me to find stuff when it's in one format as opposed to another, and disk space is cheap. I've only recently started using inxi and haven't really explored all of its many options yet.

 

[dhubs]

good day - many thanks for the quick reply - for your ideas, tipps and for the sharing of your experience and knowledge.
glad - very very glad that you gave me some hints.

i tried out INXI - which works pretty well

many thanks also to you dear MikeRocor - for your hints:

But I tend to do things the hard way. I use lspci and lsusb.

i will do some further tests and trials with these.

thank you - this forum is a very very awesome base of knoweldge - idea-sharing and i am so happy to be part of it"

have a great day

greetings

i mark it as resolved.. - this thread.

 

[osprey]

thank you - this forum is a very very awesome base of knoweldge - idea-sharing and i am so happy to be part of it"

have a great day

greetings

i mark it as resolved.. - this thread.

Just an addendum, this post has a non-exhaustive list of info gathering tools that can be in addition to the the above though some overlap: https://linux.org/threads/getting-h...-linux-to-help-forum-helpers.9676/post-153847