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.

  • TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • Spyder@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 months ago

    I run multiple terminal apps. I thought I would try a few, and I never deleted any of them.

  • highduc@lemmy.ml
    151·
    3 months ago

    Konsole is awesome and has great integration with Plasma ofc. I’m surprised to see it barely mentioned.

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
    133·
    3 months ago

    Alacritty. Alacritty. Alacritty. And did I mention Alacritty? (I’m just counting how many I have open atm)

  • www-gem@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 months ago

    I’ve been using xterm, urxvt, and st. Also tested alacrity, kitty, and wezterm. Your shell also plays a critical role in your terminal usage (but I won’t deviate here).
    For my use-case, the latter are overkill so I stayed with st. The only missing feature for me was image support even though I use it sporadically. To cover that I use a script that relies on ueberzug or ucollage if I need to browse folders.

    I’ve wrote a small post about ucollage if you’re interested.

  • EuCaue@lemmy.mlBEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    ghostty looks promising, but it’s in “closed beta” for now. When it’s released, it will be public and open source. :)

  • R...@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Running Kitty the past year and a bit and really like it. Used to run into weird laggy issues with other terminal emulators, but Kitty runs like a beast for me.

    • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
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      3 months ago

      Just switched from Alacritty, kitty+zsh rocks. Feels faster than alacritty, and the tutorialization of the default config is great. And it’s wildly configurable.

          • snaggen@programming.dev
            2·
            3 months ago

            Well, that was something… I have used ligatures in my code editor for quite a few years now, and I have NEVER been confused about the ambiguity this person is so upset about. Why? I have never ever seen the Unicode character for not equals in a code block, simply since it is not a valid character in any known language. In fact, I have never even seen it in a String where it actually would be legal, probably since nobody knows how to type that using a standard keyboard. This whole article felt like someone with a severe diagnose have locked in on some hypothetical correctness issue, that simply isn’t a problem in the real world.

            But, if you for some reason find ligatures confusing, then you shouldn’t use them. But, just to be clear, there is not a right of wrong like this blog post tries to argue, it is a matter of personal taste.

            • apostrofail@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68

              ALGOL 68, mother of all the C-likes, has ≠. There ace quite a few languages support Unicode such as ≠. What is not equals then? Exclamation mark + equals? Forward slash + equals? Tilde + equals? Less than + greater than? Equals + forward slash + equals. What is more clear than all of those aforementioned options from ‘modern programming languages’? 2260 ≠ Not Equal To. Type what you mean, specifically. Your programming language doesn’t support it? Your language is hurting clarity.

              • snaggen@programming.dev
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                3 months ago

                Good to know that every time I feel the need to use ALGOL 68, I must remember to disable ligatures. Still not sure this is going to be a huge problem 😂

                • apostrofail@lemmy.world
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                  3 months ago

                  No need to ignore history. Older ALGOL versions used several now-Unicode operators. A lot of language support it. You have most of the APL + its dialects (such as BQN), theorem provers like Agda and LEAN 4, functional languages supporting Unicode Preludes like Haskell and PureScript, MATLAB, Mathematica, RPL, Raku, Julia, AppleScript, and of course the TI BASICs. Not to mention ≠ is what is used in general math(s) & handwriting. All this to say, it’s more common than you are leading on.

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
    214·
    3 months ago

    People keep recommending terminal emulators, but I think they’re missing your point.

    I’m not aware of anyone making new terminals these days. In my opinion DIGITAL is still king. They are getting a bit hard to come by. VT220 used to be the gold standard, but a VT420 or VT520 is still worth it if you can find one.

    Looks like there are a few VT420s on eBay going for up to $200. Prices aren’t what they used to be.

  • thayerw@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    There is no one-size-fits-all, but for fits most, you’re looking at KDE’s Konsole or GNOME’s new Terminal (formerly Ptyxis). Everything else is going to be niche, with special use cases. What are your specific needs?