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.
kitty. it’s the first thing I install on a new machine.
Ditto on that.
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
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.
Alacritty (with tmux if I need a multiplexor)
You might also be interested in checking out Zellij, it’s like tmux with nice defaults
I’m partial to a bit of Tilix personality.
#1, whatever is default. The main advantage of the terminal is that it’s just a terminal, fundamentally the same terminal since the dawn of computing.
Having said that, I do sometimes install a non-default terminal. I haven’t seen any of them mentioned:
cool-retro-term It looks like an OG CRT! What other terminal emulator has this killer feature?
Byobu Technically a front end for tmux, but it gives some useful status info and multiple windows.
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.
Gotta love terminator. I also always greatly appreciated how uncluttered and to the point its ui was, while being modern and configurable.
Tilix
Formerly I used Terminator, because I liked to split the screen. Then I moved to Kitty because having a GPU-powered terminal sound amazing, and now I’m using gnome-terminal because I’m trying to get back to simply and default.
konsole
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.
I don’t care much for the terminal, but I noticed that I care a lot about my shell and the tools I use in it.
And the prompt - can’t live without my ASCII bling-blink.
Konsole
Wezterm. I love some of it’s features (quick search).
I also love wezterm, but because I was able to easily disable all of it’s keyboard shortcuts and only re-enable those few I want (ctrl+shift+V, F11, ctrl+“=”, ctrl+ “-”). I use tmux for everything and I really love that I can “debloat” the shortcuts and don’t have to care about colliding keybinds when configuring things like neovim.
Foot terminal on wayland, wezterm on MacOS
Alacritty (with screen if I need a multiplexor)
Konsole
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.
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.
My Distro came with kde so I got used to Konsole plus for sone reason other terminal emulators felt slower
