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I'm looking for a new terminal. What's your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

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[–] Bankenstein@feddit.de 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Wezterm is my favourite because it's really configurable and supports ligatures. Konsole is also quite nice. Generally I'm in favour of using whichever one comes with your DE, or Wezterm if you use a WM.

Kitty is probably the most popular one, but I don't like it cause ~~no ligature support~~ ~~no acceleration~~ it claims it has good font management, but fonts never worked properly in my experience.

Alacritty and Foot are also popular for their performance. Alacritty does have some stability issues though.

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 10 points 8 months ago

Kitty does use GPU acceleration

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[–] los_chill@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

Wezterm is my daily driver.