I’ve always just used konsole or gnome terminal. Never really looked into what else is available. Tried cool-retro-term the other day, but the novelty wore off pretty fast for me.
Curious to see if there’s a terminal someone swears by and refuses to use anything else.
kitty. it’s the first thing I install on a new machine.
And why do you usw kitty? For me its the hyprland default terminal emulator and I never had problems with it so I stuck with it
I tested kitty and alacrity when I first found out about advanced term emulators. I liked kitty more, but I don’t remember why. I use the kittens all the time. It’s super convenient to play a video or display an image in the terminal. Kitty works on most distros. I wish it worked on windows, too, so I could use it at work.
If you’re allowed to install WSL on your work machine, they recently (I think recently) added GUI support for linux applications.
If you install kitty on a WSL distro, you can use it like any other windows program.
You can access your windows file system from /mnt/
I don’t really know how they do the virtualization, so you may lose a lot of the performance benefits that kitty has.
Very clunky workaround, but it’s an option.
Ditto on that.
alacritty
Seconded, Alacritty has been great to me
Konsole
I used (u)xterm for like 20 years before discovering that Konsole is solid and beautiful. My whole tiling setup is backed up with KDE apps now.
My Distro came with kde so I got used to Konsole plus for sone reason other terminal emulators felt slower
I used to install VS code for every new install and now I just stick to Kate. Although the storage impact is minimal, a lot of the dependencies for KDE apps are already present if you are running KDE as your desktop env.
Same here, but with Fish 🐠
I love the features of fish but the colors are hard to read on my terminal screen when there is blue text sometimes. Wish I could change the default colors of fiah
Alacritty
No particular reason why. It’s fast, it works, and I’ve already got it configured how I like it.
I’ve used kitty and a couple others. It really doesn’t make much difference to me tbh.
Alacritty, no particular reason. It’s fast and I already made it look how I want so there is no reason to switch.
+1
Wezterm. I love some of it’s features (quick search).
Konsole does everything I need it to.
I’m partial to a bit of Tilix personality.
Sounds like there’s a ton of options but this is the first one I’ve found that supports copy-on-highlight and that’s a must for me.
I like yakuake, I’m spoiled by the drop-down terminal at this point
I used to love yakuake. Really convenient
It’s become really sleek looking too. When I first started using it the UI looked kinda clunky.
So Konsole rocks. Yakuake a great addition. But I’m a big KDE fanboy
Alacritty is also pretty fun, combined with openbox / LXDE
But for the $dayjob it’s Windows Terminal which is easily the best thing Microsoft has released in decades when combined with WSL
Foot if you’re on Wayland, alacritty if you’re not.
Konsole and Yakuake… It’s sufficient
I’ve really grown to like yakuake. I always have a sorta “main terminal” where I have a tmux session going and now I do that in yakuake so it’s available on all desktops and easily put “out of the way” when I don’t need it.
Gnome Terminal. I’ve tried out a few others, but at this point I’m kind of partial to just using the default with good integration with the rest of the desktop. Pop, in this case. I’m curious if they’ll adopt something else for the terminal in COSMIC.
Edit: They just recently announced COSMIC Terminal, so that’s a yes. I look forward to trying it out. It’s based on alacritty’s framework.
Since you sound like you know what’s going on with Pop I’ll ask: what is Cosmic? I understand it’s a DE, but is it replacing Gnome entirely and a new DE built from the ground up? Seems like every update assumes you know more than I do :)
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m mostly talking out my ass. But as far as I know, it’s a new DE that’s being written in Rust using the iced toolkit. It looks like they’re aiming to be Wayland native without the X baggage. It’s been a while since the last full Pop release (20.04), so it will be nice to get the rest of the OS upgraded as well.
Ah, ok. That makes more sense. I really like the OS so far. Made my first leap into Linux only mid 2023ish. And it’s been awesome!
I am glad you are enjoying it so far! It has a bit of a learning curve, but it has improved significantly since I was first getting into it in high school around 2004. Wow… already 20 years.
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I use wezterm on wayland. It has built in tabs so its better than just using another window or tmux imo
