Linux Terminal Emulators Have The Potential Of Being Much Faster - eviltoast
  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    1 year ago

    I found my terminal speed to not matter when most of what I do with it is over SSH administrating various boxes.

    Probably matters more for riced up vim users and TUI fans since you need a lot of responsiveness.

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      1 year ago

      I am a Vim user and TUI fan. It does not make any difference in my experience to use a fast GPU based terminal. Maybe something like st might startup faster, but that’s it.

      • echindod@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        I can tell the difference in a JavaScript terminal and a native one, but yeah. Urxvt is fast enough. So is the gnome terminal