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

  • bugsmith@programming.dev
    27·
    1 year ago

    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).

    • genie@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 year ago

    My favorite is Alacritty but I don’t use it because of stability issues lol. Kitty is popular now. It seems to have some questionable update policy but it’s fixable. It supports plugins (kittens), tabs and most of the common features. Though the configuration is done in a text file. It doesn’t have a GUI for it. For that I’d recommend Konsole

    • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Most things in Linux are configured via text files. It’s one of the main principles of Linux; store configs in plain text files. Saves us from having to use awful tooling like that of the windows registry. Even most GUI config settings are just manipulating a text file under the hood.

        • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Well yeah. But would you rather a GUI that stores the settings in easy to read and manipulate plain text files; Linux, or an archaic GUI that manipulates raw data and often breaks and is hard to understand; Windows registry.
          Even if you prefer GUIs, you’d probably still want the data stored in plain text files for the sake of simplicity and consistency.

      • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        I can’t remember all of them but now I have a weird issue that when I open Alacritty there’s some loading going on in the background for quite a few seconds which I can even see on the cursor (I think it’s “xdg” that’s loading) and even reinstalling the system didn’t help

        • Elsie@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh I think I know what you mean. Did you try setting your shell to something like sh instead of bash or zsh and see if it was a shell startup issue?

  • Bankenstein@feddit.de
    9·
    1 year ago

    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 no acceleration it claims it has good font management, but fonts never worked properly in my experience.

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

    • msage@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      I want to love it too. I use dwm, and tried ST for a year, but I gave up. Tmux doesn’t solve every issue, and specially when you have to manage another Tmux session on a server, it gets ridiculous.

      I want to use as much suckless as possible, but ST just doesn’t work for me.

  • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Ptyxis, formerly Prompt. I used urxvt for many years but eventually settled on GNOME Terminal after transitioning to the GNOME environment for most of my devices. Ptyxis is a slick and quick container-centric GTK 4 terminal that fits well with my Fedora Silverblue container-based workflow.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    ADM-3A for beauty and the vim keys.

    TRS-80 DT-1 for weirdness.

    IBM 5251 for beam spring keys.

    DEC VT320 because library nostalgia.