I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?
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
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.
Some people just like GUI more
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.I prefer text files. What I meant is that not everyone does. That people like Konsole more
What stability issues have you encountered?
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
Oh I think I know what you mean. Did you try setting your shell to something like
shinstead of bash or zsh and see if it was a shell startup issue?sh is just an alias for the default shell. And also idk how to set that
And your default shell is a POSIX compliant shell, usually dash or ash, so that’s what I mean by
sh. You can set it in~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.tomlwith:[shell] program = "/bin/sh"Just tried that. Didn’t help
