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.
For me: Wezterm. It does pretty much everything. I don’t think Alacritty/Kitty etc. offer anything over it for my usage, and the developer is a pleasure to engage with.
Second place is Konsole – it does a lot, is easy to configure, and obviously integrates nicely with KDE apps.
Honorable mention is Extraterm, which has been working on cool features for a long time, and is now Qt based.
+1 for Wezterm, it also had image support that Alacritty didn’t have, which I needed for Yazi to work.
I’ve heard good things about Warp too but Wezterm is where I’ll be for now.
Konsole is awesome and has great integration with Plasma ofc. I’m surprised to see it barely mentioned.
There is no one-size-fits-all, but for fits most, you’re looking at KDE’s Konsole or GNOME’s new Terminal (formerly Ptyxis). Everything else is going to be niche, with special use cases. What are your specific needs?
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.
foot for me
Alacritty is fine. If you’re not combining it with tmux and zsh/fish, id pluck those fruits first.
Tmux was too complicated for me so I’m using Byobu instead
Tmux with a few custom key bindings is amazing. Kind of a learning curve, but not nearly as bad as something like Vim.
Tmux with a few custom key bindings
Yeah, like I said: Byobu! :p
The one with your distro shipped with
Terminator for me. It has tiles and tabs and does everything I need.
Depends on what you need actually. I was doing fine with urxvt on Xorg, so foot is a perfect alternative for me on Wayland.
Alacritty. Alacritty. Alacritty. And did I mention Alacritty? (I’m just counting how many I have open atm)
It’s between konsole and kitty for me. Both are great.
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.
Alacrity or foot (foot has less features but it’s faster)
I don’t know if it’s the best, but kitty + zsh has been my daily driver for many years.
