what is the best linux terminal? I have been using alacritty for years and have been doing well. But I don’t think kitty and st. I was wondering if any new projects have come out in recent years.

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    3 months ago

    Am I the only one that’s fine with whatever the OS provides out of the box? Like, as long as I can turn the bell off and change the font, I’m chillin, and I have yet to run into a terminal that doesn’t provide those options.

    Curious to hear what drives people to seek out other options (besides tiling, that I understand, I’m a tabs guy myself tho)

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      Online trends I saw on the internet was the reason I hopped around multiple terminals. Use case for me it made no difference.

      There’s 4 other terminals I did enjoy using but xterm became my go to after I got tired of hopping around.

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      Image display is an important feature for me. If konsole supported it, I’d just use that. If I’m on a gnome system I’ll pretty much always change the terminal because gnome terminal has a lot of issues with font rendering that I find annoying

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      In my case it’s resource consumption, efficiency the impact with the windows manager I use, how much is keyboard controllable. It seems strange to me that a linux user uses the default applications. The beauty of linux is the huge variety and the ability to customize. If you use allova ready-made things, a mac or windows is fine too

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        It seems strange to me that a linux user uses the default applications

        I sorta get what you’re saying, but rather than just pick any random distro and handpick every application myself, I put effort into finding a distro which has the most default apps that I’m happy with. I use KDE Neon because I like Dolphin, Konsole, Konqueror, and the pre-installed version of VLC; however, I DON’T use the default email client, text editor, etc.

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        I don’t know I never felt the need to customize the terminal. I just like what it comes with. It feels wrong to change that. Black background and colored text is fine. The rest of the OS though damn it’s like a fucking birthday party! Nothing’s at default ffs

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          In the past I have found myself working with laptops with few resources and small screen (eeepc). Every pixel gained was a big win, and finding equivalent lightweight, high-performance applications could make all the difference. Eventually I found the optimal solution with i3 as windows manager and alacritty was the best terminal to use together (and zsh). Since then even though I have no real need I have continued to use this approach. And in the end being careful about pc resource consumption is also an ethical choice, if the pc consumes less power it is a gain for the environment.

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      Wen I first installed Linux I was like “I need the best fancy termanal” and wastes some time only not be satisfied with the results and installing tons of bloat. Now I always just use what I get by default from the distro I happen to be on 😂 I don’t even know what I want

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    What’s wrong with kitty?

    I’ve been using kitty for some time didn’t had any issues, and multiplexing is useful.

    PS: i used tmux for many years, and still use on headless

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      I personally don’t use Kitty because, for me, it’s much slower to open compared to Alacritty. :)

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    3 months ago

    People keep recommending terminal emulators, but I think they’re missing your point.

    I’m not aware of anyone making new terminals these days. In my opinion DIGITAL is still king. They are getting a bit hard to come by. VT220 used to be the gold standard, but a VT420 or VT520 is still worth it if you can find one.

    Looks like there are a few VT420s on eBay going for up to $200. Prices aren’t what they used to be.

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    Alacritty. Alacritty. Alacritty. And did I mention Alacritty? (I’m just counting how many I have open atm)

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    Konsole is awesome and has great integration with Plasma ofc. I’m surprised to see it barely mentioned.

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    Alacritty is fine. If you’re not combining it with tmux and zsh/fish, id pluck those fruits first.

  • edric@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Tilda because you can roll it down from the top of your screen with one key press.

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        It’s roughly the same. I never used the tabbing features, so I can’t comment. But until wayland came along, it was always there for me, working away just fine.

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    A Windows VM running Windows terminal, SSH’d back into the host, obviously.

    Honestly I stick with whatever the default is and never had a problem that led me to find anything else.

  • R...@lemmy.ml
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    Running Kitty the past year and a bit and really like it. Used to run into weird laggy issues with other terminal emulators, but Kitty runs like a beast for me.