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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] 2 points 1 year ago

guake and conemu

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like terminology

It’s quick, gpu accelerated, can natively display images, and I’m not sure what else.

I don’t use the rest of enlightenment de but have stuck with terminology for years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What are the benefits if Gpu-accelarated terminals? From my understanding, that's a really negligible difference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

kitty terminal + zsh shell, two fast and customizable tools

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wezterm. It has all the features one could wish for

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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 1 year 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] 2 points 1 year ago

Currently: foot

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Kitty, cute name and logo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Call me lazy if you like, but I use GNOME terminal. Comes as standard with my distro. Does what I need. Supports fonts that aren't pixel fonts and has various look and feel tweaks accessible by GUI if I really want to get in there. I do that once after every fresh install and it's been a while since then.

Given that I loved a bit of Quake back in the day, you'd think I'd like drop down terminals like ddterm and Guake (which might not work on Wayland?), but weirdly no. I like it in a box I can move around.

I also keep the ancient xterm installed just in case and for when I get nostalgic for the old pixel fonts, but it's not exactly my go-to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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] 1 points 1 year ago

QTerminal, xterm, and of course, the good ol' Linux console when I don't wanna do anything graphical.

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