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.
I’m high AF and new to Linux, what is a terminal emulator?
In overly simple terms
It’s a terminal app on your desktop, e.g. alacritty, konsole, kitty, terminator, urxvt, etc.
As opposed to the terminal that your computer would boot into it you didn’t have a desktop environment installed.
Fun fact!
Teletypes predate “computers” and were used for efficiently transmitting and recording text.
Here is a purely mechanical teletype from the 1930s being used to interface with a modern Linux machine:
https://youtu.be/2XLZ4Z8LpEE?si=BEsTAz5kkYu9tIQB
This was a very cool video. Thank you for sharing!