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!

Python is 10x more popular than perl these days. None are installed by default on Windows.

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.

guess the point was that bash is way more common than python?

It’s not, especially in the Windows-centric corporate environments mentioned above. 0 not greater than 0.

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.