I’ve always just used konsole or gnome terminal. Never really looked into what else is available. Tried cool-retro-term the other day, but the novelty wore off pretty fast for me.

Curious to see if there’s a terminal someone swears by and refuses to use anything else.

    • mining (they/them)@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      And why do you usw kitty? For me its the hyprland default terminal emulator and I never had problems with it so I stuck with it

      • shartworx@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I tested kitty and alacrity when I first found out about advanced term emulators. I liked kitty more, but I don’t remember why. I use the kittens all the time. It’s super convenient to play a video or display an image in the terminal. Kitty works on most distros. I wish it worked on windows, too, so I could use it at work.

        • tourist@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          2 years ago

          If you’re allowed to install WSL on your work machine, they recently (I think recently) added GUI support for linux applications.

          If you install kitty on a WSL distro, you can use it like any other windows program.

          You can access your windows file system from /mnt/

          I don’t really know how they do the virtualization, so you may lose a lot of the performance benefits that kitty has.

          Very clunky workaround, but it’s an option.

    • themoken@startrek.website
      4·
      2 years ago

      I used (u)xterm for like 20 years before discovering that Konsole is solid and beautiful. My whole tiling setup is backed up with KDE apps now.

      • macattack@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        I used to install VS code for every new install and now I just stick to Kate. Although the storage impact is minimal, a lot of the dependencies for KDE apps are already present if you are running KDE as your desktop env.

      • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        11·
        2 years ago

        I love the features of fish but the colors are hard to read on my terminal screen when there is blue text sometimes. Wish I could change the default colors of fiah

  • pelotron@midwest.socialEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    I don’t know the difference between a terminal and a terminal emulator, and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

    Lately using Foot since that’s what my distro shipped with.

  • thejodie@programming.dev
    14·
    2 years ago

    Terminator.

    I use the broadcast, zoom, grouping, and the guake/yakuake style dropdown. Also it has layout switching like xmonad, ie you can ctrl + space to cycle pane layouts.

    • krash@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Foot

      I was considering Foot, it is fast (renderwise and in interactive use) and the dev seems like an awesome person. But it doesn’t support ligatures. I’ll watch the issue and give it a shot when it’s implemented.

      • the_weez@midwest.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        That’s fair. I don’t think I personally use ligatures anywhere and I’m not experiencing any issues with foot after using it for a few years so I might just have to stay blissfully ignorant on this one ;)

        What do you use ligatures for?

        • krash@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          The only practical thing they provide for me is slightly better readability, and eye candy (my prompt rely on them). I like my shells functional and pretty 😁

  • Olap@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 years ago

    So Konsole rocks. Yakuake a great addition. But I’m a big KDE fanboy

    Alacritty is also pretty fun, combined with openbox / LXDE

    But for the $dayjob it’s Windows Terminal which is easily the best thing Microsoft has released in decades when combined with WSL

  • cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 years ago

    Alacritty, no particular reason. It’s fast and I already made it look how I want so there is no reason to switch.

    • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Using alacritty for years on all linux devices, it does what its supposed to do. Recent change to toml configuration was a bit of hassle. But with the latest release the migration is no problem anymore.

      • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Honestly didn’t even know they migrated to toml. I upgraded and it said yaml wasnt supported anymore. I used alacritty migrate and only had to remove a couple deprecated options and it was fine.

        It’s why I keep it. It’s set and just seems to work well.

  • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    10·
    2 years ago

    Alacritty

    No particular reason why. It’s fast, it works, and I’ve already got it configured how I like it.

    I’ve used kitty and a couple others. It really doesn’t make much difference to me tbh.

  • GeaRdev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    I use wezterm on wayland. It has built in tabs so its better than just using another window or tmux imo

    • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      2 years ago

      Hooray, I found another WezTerm user here so I didn’t need to comment.

      It is a multiplexer like tmux, so it’s essentially 2 in 1

      • GeaRdev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yes very useful. I hated no built in tabs bc I used “npm run dev” to run my site so I had to open a new terminal to code it.

  • fleet@lemmy.ca
    9·
    2 years ago

    wezterm. Works great on wayland and the documentation is amazing. And it’s built in rust if you’re one of those people.