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.
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.
Konsole is awesome and has great integration with Plasma ofc. I'm surprised to see it barely mentioned.
Not a new project, but I feel is often overlooked: Sakura. I’ve fallen back to it repeatedly over the years. It is lightweight, opinionated but sane. Not as brutalist as st. I combo it with Tmux using powerline with little tweaking.
It uses standard libraries and stays out of the way.
I consider st a great choice when using i3 or dwm. Customizing it takes time, but RAM usage is what I usually check and in case of st it is comically small.
If they care about terminal emulators, it's unlikely their distro came with one preinstalled.
Alacritty is fine. If you're not combining it with tmux and zsh/fish, id pluck those fruits first.
Tmux with a few custom key bindings is amazing. Kind of a learning curve, but not nearly as difficult as something like Vim.
Wezterm is my primary. Love the built-in domain/sshmux features, especially for work. The LUA config rocks, sky is the limit. Highly portable when using something like Chezmoi or YADM.
That said, it's not always the most performant, especially with certain TUIs. I've been running my NVim workspace in Kitty lately just to avoid the minor UI lag (primarily with lazygit). Not a fan of Kitty (or its dev) otherwise, but it serves its purpose.
If Wezterm ever gets optimized, it'll be the GOAT for me.
Ghostty also sounds like it's got potential, but haven't gotten my invite yet. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Using ptyxis even on KDE, it’s neat. Very clean and some interesting integration with distrobox, definitely recommend.
Ptyxis is default on Bluefin, which I'm on now.
Recommend. Really nice container integration with distrobox.
I don't know if it's the best, but kitty + zsh has been my daily driver for many years.
all of the fancy features that other terminals provide, I get with Tmux, so any emulator for me. I like transparent themes and that's easy to set up in Alacritty, so that's what I usually get
I had to switch recently because I wanted to try out font ligatures and it turns out Alacritty refuse to implement support for that 😬
oh I think I've come across that yeah. not a fan of them personally, so not something that I would notice lol