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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

i quite like kitty, it's got great text rendering support

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

terminator was my go to for the longest time. Nowadays, I just use default GNOME Terminal. I just need things to work and not waste time tinkering.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Currently: foot

Especially for the server mode and the resulting fast startup of footclient.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

9term is what I use the most. Once you get used to the Plan9 way, you kind of like it. Sometimes I use Terminator as well. Konsole is like Terminator, both are good. They are both nicer than kitty for me. I tried kitty, went back to Terminator as it has menus to edit things, not just a text file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

How is plan9 compared to BSd & Linux? I only learned about it recently.

What are the stand out pros & cons compared to Linux & BSD?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

mintty (windows)

xterm (linux)

termux (android)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

kitty terminal + zsh shell, two fast and customizable tools

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Wezterm. It has all the features one could wish for

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I like just good old gnome terminal. Theming scripts work well with it, like the gruvbox one that has like a hundred color themes. it's got all the right features. just works

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Guake. Has been for years. I am in and out the terminal all the time, so F12 works well for me. Plus I used to play Quake and used the in game terminal to do all kinds of things. Plus I'm an old RISC OS kid and F12 was the key to get the "star line".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Alacritty because I like how it handles bitmap fonts and I need bitmap fonts in my life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Digital Equipment Corporations VT220

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

8/10 map, ngl. Would play over Summit or Apocalypse any day.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago

You're so funny man

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