feat: enhance logger by displaying systeminfo at start of the app

main.js

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ app.setAppUserModelId("com.masteracnolo.freedomloader");
 /**
  * Load the app dependencies for hardware choice
  */
-const { logger, logSessionStart, logSessionEnd } = require("./server/logger");
+const { logger, logSessionStart, logSessionEnd, logDir } = require("./server/logger");
 const { configFeatures } = require("./config");
 
 /**
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ const { updateYtDlp } = require("./app/ytDlpUpdater");
 const { createMainWindow, getMainWindow } = require("./app/windowManager");
 const { registerIpcHandlers } = require("./app/ipcHandlers");
 const { createSplashWindow, closeSplashWindow, setSplashProgress } = require("./app/splashManager");
-const { userThemesPath, initUserThemes, isWindows, validateBinaries } = require("./server/helpers/path.helpers");
+const { userThemesPath, initUserThemes, isWindows, validateBinaries, defaultDownloadFolder } = require("./server/helpers/path.helpers");
 
 
 /**
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ app.on("second-instance", () => {
 });
 
 app.whenReady().then(async () => {
-  logSessionStart();
+  logSessionStart(logDir, defaultDownloadFolder);
 
   createSplashWindow();
 

server/logger.js

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ const path = require("path");
 const os = require("os");
 const config = require("../config");
 const {isWindows} = require("./helpers/path.helpers");
+const { logSystemInfo } = require("./sysinfo");
 
 // Logs folder in Windows
 const logDir = isWindows ? path.join(os.homedir(), "AppData", "Local", "FreedomLoader", "logs") : path.join(process.env.XDG_DATA_HOME || path.join(os.homedir(), ".local", "share"),  "FreedomLoader", "logs");
@@ -52,9 +53,10 @@ const logger = createLogger({
 /**
  * Start Log Session 
  */
-function logSessionStart() {
+function logSessionStart(logDir, downloadPath) {
   logger.info(`--- Starting session: ${new Date().toISOString()} ---`);
   logger.info(`Application Version: ${config.version}`)
+  logSystemInfo(logger, logDir, downloadPath)
 }
 
 /**

server/sysinfo.js

@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+const os = require("os");
+const fs = require("fs");
+const { execSync } = require("child_process");
+const { app } = require("electron");
+
+/**
+ * Reads /etc/os-release to get the Linux distribution name
+ */
+function getLinuxDistro() {
+    try {
+        const content = fs.readFileSync("/etc/os-release", "utf-8");
+        const pretty = content.match(/^PRETTY_NAME="?(.+?)"?$/m);
+        if (pretty) return pretty[1];
+        const name = content.match(/^NAME="?(.+?)"?$/m);
+        return name ? name[1] : "Unknown Linux";
+    } catch {
+        return "Unknown Linux";
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Reads the package-type file written by electron-builder
+ * to determine how the app was distributed (rpm, snap, AppImage, deb...)
+ */
+function getPackageType() {
+    try {
+        const pkgTypePath = require("path").join(process.resourcesPath, "package-type");
+        if (fs.existsSync(pkgTypePath)) {
+            return fs.readFileSync(pkgTypePath, "utf-8").trim();
+        }
+    } catch { /* ignore */ }
+    return "unknown";
+}
+
+/**
+ * Checks if Firefox is installed on the current platform
+ */
+function detectFirefox() {
+    const platform = process.platform;
+
+    if (platform === "win32") {
+        const paths = [
+            "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe",
+            "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe",
+            `${process.env.LOCALAPPDATA}\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe`,
+        ];
+        return paths.some(p => fs.existsSync(p));
+    }
+
+    if (platform === "linux") {
+        const paths = [
+            "/usr/bin/firefox",
+            "/usr/bin/firefox-esr",
+            "/usr/local/bin/firefox",
+            "/snap/bin/firefox",
+            "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/org.mozilla.firefox",
+            `${os.homedir()}/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin/org.mozilla.firefox`,
+        ];
+        if (paths.some(p => fs.existsSync(p))) return true;
+        try { execSync("which firefox", { stdio: "ignore" }); return true; } catch { return false; }
+    }
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Builds the system info object logged at startup
+ * 
+ * @param {string} logDir - path to the log directory
+ * @param {string} downloadPath - current configured download path
+ */
+function getSystemInfo(logDir, downloadPath) {
+    const platform = process.platform;
+    const cpus = os.cpus();
+    const totalMem = (os.totalmem() / 1024 / 1024 / 1024).toFixed(1);
+    const freeMem  = (os.freemem()  / 1024 / 1024 / 1024).toFixed(1);
+
+    let platformLabel;
+    if (platform === "win32") {
+        platformLabel = `Windows (${os.release()})`;
+    } else if (platform === "linux") {
+        platformLabel = `Linux — ${getLinuxDistro()}`;
+    } else {
+        platformLabel = `${platform} ${os.release()} (unsupported)`;
+    }
+
+    const info = {
+        "Platform":        platformLabel,
+        "Architecture":    os.arch(),
+        "CPU":             cpus.length ? `${cpus[0].model.trim()} (${cpus.length} cores)` : "Unknown",
+        "Memory":          `${freeMem} GB free / ${totalMem} GB total`,
+        "Locale":          app.getLocale(),
+        "Electron":        process.versions.electron,
+        "Node":            process.versions.node,
+        "Packaged":        String(app.isPackaged),
+        "Package type":    app.isPackaged ? getPackageType() : "dev",
+        "Firefox present": detectFirefox() ? "Yes" : "No — cookie features unavailable",
+        "Log directory":   logDir,
+        "Download path":   downloadPath,
+    };
+
+    // Linux-specific extras
+    if (platform === "linux") {
+        const sessionType = process.env.XDG_SESSION_TYPE || "unknown";
+        const waylandDisplay = process.env.WAYLAND_DISPLAY;
+        const x11Display = process.env.DISPLAY;
+
+        info["Display server"]  = waylandDisplay
+            ? `Wayland (${waylandDisplay})`
+            : x11Display
+            ? `X11 (${x11Display})`
+            : sessionType !== "unknown"
+            ? sessionType
+            : "unknown";
+
+        info["Desktop env"] = process.env.XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP || process.env.DESKTOP_SESSION || "unknown";
+    }
+
+    return info;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Logs system info at application startup
+ *
+ * @param {object} logger - winston logger instance
+ * @param {string} logDir - path to the log directory
+ * @param {string} downloadPath - current configured download path
+ */
+function logSystemInfo(logger, logDir, downloadPath) {
+    const info = getSystemInfo(logDir, downloadPath);
+    const maxKeyLen = Math.max(...Object.keys(info).map(k => k.length));
+
+    logger.info("=".repeat(60));
+    logger.info("SYSTEM INFO");
+    logger.info("=".repeat(60));
+    for (const [key, val] of Object.entries(info)) {
+        logger.info(`  ${key.padEnd(maxKeyLen)} : ${val}`);
+    }
+    logger.info("=".repeat(60));
+}
+
+module.exports = { logSystemInfo };