I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

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        You forgot to mention it’s wayland only. This was disappointing, it looks like it’s got some nice features…

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          Yeah I mean there’s a lot of benefits and increased security on Wayland now so it’s definitely worth the transition to.

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            • i’m on xfce so i’d need to change my de
            • swhkd seems to be abandoned, and i couldn’t get it to run, so i’d need to change a lot about my wm setup on top of moving to sway
            • nvidia issues
            • permission issues (screen sharing for example)
            • i’d also need to replace other tools, shortcuts, etc. so they use the wayland alternatives

            Definitely not worth it just to get fractional scaling, and some theoretical security improvements on an OS that’s already quite secure. I tried using it for a few weeks on KDE, and I had to go back to x11 for something almost every day.

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              Weird, I’ve not required X for anything since I started using it, I also just use my Window Manager to bind hotkeys (usually Sway)

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    Wezterm is my favourite because it’s really configurable and supports ligatures. Konsole is also quite nice. Generally I’m in favour of using whichever one comes with your DE, or Wezterm if you use a WM.

    Kitty is probably the most popular one, but I don’t like it cause no ligature support.

    Alacritty and Foot are also popular for their performance. Alacritty does have some stability issues though.

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    iterm2 is near perfect on macOS, for Linux I usually use Alacritty or Foot

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    I’m on the Alacritty/Tmux/ZSH train. Haven’t any issues, other than font scaling differences between laptop and desktop UW monitor.

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      This is me too, but I just switched to alacritty from urxvt (due to some new bug with control characters).

      I prefer my terminal to purely show text, and I use tmux for all the fancy stuff.

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    Favorite terminal? iTerm2 on mac, hands-down. Wish they would port it to Linux.

    On Linux though, I usually end up using guake, as I like having easy drop-down global access to my terminal.

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      This. It feels like what the new gnome-console ought to have been.

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        Damn this was my first thought too.

        Someone pass me an AARP card and a Costco-sized tube of ointment…

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          I think Openbox is the main survivor of the *box WMs – Openbox has become pretty much the default choice for small Linux distros, either with a few utilities like crunchbangplusplus or BunsenLabs or as the base of a lightweight DE like LXDE/LXQt

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      Love me some fish! Though for more complex data processing, I’m working on learning nushell. Being able to work with more complex data structures is amazing.

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    I don’t have one specific as my favorite anymore and currently use Konsole from KDE. If you like tinkering with files and want it highly customizable through configuration files instead a gui, then probably Kitty is the best (and the closest to being my favorite). Alacritty is also a good one, but its quite simple and lacks some features in my opinion. I didn’t try too many, but these 3 are the top three I would consider using in the feature future.

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    I like Konsole.

    It comes with KDE, supports tabs, themes, and loads very fast.

    I don’t really need more from a terminal than that. When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij (previously I used tmux).

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      When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij

      Konsole does window splitting as well, doesn’t it?

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      Yakuake is similar but drop down based (like quake). I love having a hot key to access my terminal (tabs, splits, and all). Especially when editing in vim and looking at docs in Firefox it’s such a buttery smooth workflow.