I have recently jumped head first into the Linux space. I’ve installed Arch on my daily driver and I’ve become overwhelmed/overjoyed with my options. I’d like to hear from the community about your Linux favorites.
What is your favorite Terminal Emulator and what have you done to customize it?
I’ve been using Alacritty for a while. It’s fast and does everything I need.
Also using this one for years now, don’t see a reason to change, although I see some “foot” in conjunction with wayland quite often.
Second, gotta love the new rust based tools and apps getting developed. Although I’ve seen some weird formatting issues on windows. Linux version is solid though.
Alacritty is also the terminal that feels small and focused enough for me. Too many other terminals try to do everything like session management, etc.
I use kitty. I don’t use its multiplexer features, but I do use its emoji picker a lot.
Yakuake. <3 drop down terminals.
I also love me some drop down terminals!
I personally use Tilda… because it allows me to drop it down using just the ` key, and the background transparency actually works (unlike Yakuake) on my distro.
I have it bound to capslock. What else am I going to use that key for?
Damn. That’s actually a good idea! +1
Hell yea
foot
I only changed the colors and the font to Fira Code.
Wezterm for me, I like the multiplexer that comes with it.
It works cross platform on every machine including windows with a single lua config and the documentation feels complete.
I love it for its simplicity but unfortunately some fonts like Fira Code are weirdly buggy on font size 11. Still a very pretty and just werks™ terminal for basic usage so I kept using it with a changed font lol
Tried it and was not much pleased. What makes it better in your opinion?
I have tried them all and this is my preferred option.
Made for gnome = bloatware, change my mind.
If you don’t like it, don’t use it. I like it so I use it. I don’t have to validate my choices with things that don’t matter.
I don’t agree at all that gnome applications are bloat ware. Most of the gnome applications are very minimal and light weight.
Also I guess it is great we have options.
Serial port hooked up to my oscilloscope
I’m using Tilix right now, mostly because it’s the best of the very few that support touch scrolling. Since I’m using my Surface Pro as a tablet a lot of the time that’s an important feature to me.
I like tilix for… the tiles (and quake mode).
Gnome Terminal when I’m in GNOME, Konsole when I’m in KDE, and plain old xterm for i3 and any other WM. These just feel like they fit just right into their respective DE/WM.
Used to be termite for its minimalist feature. Now that it’s gone I move on to Wezterm. Occasionally I use alacrity to connect to armbian nodes because it can’t recognize wezterm. I hate kitty, not because of the terminal itself, but the dev. There is a snarky comment at github issue made by kitty’s dev when people request for a termite-like feature. It drove me to uninstall kitty straight away.
Switched from alacritty after using it for a year or two to foot. Does what it’s supposed to well, and not a bunch of other shit
Yeah, foot is really fast even without server mode.
Seconded, easy to use, easy to configure and does what it’s supposed to do.
Care to elaborate what alacritty does differently than foot?
It’s written in C and is a bit more minimalist. Builds faster than alacritty, and is pretty even with alacritty in perf.
Alacritty is written in rust. 😎
Been using foot for like 4 years.
I’m happy with Konsole. Don’t think I’ve customized it any. TEs by and large just get the job done.
I looked quite a bit. Konsole is king for me.
My only complaint is the SSH profiles don’t always work as intended, but that’s just a theming thing.
I like terminator
I use Alacritty and have only themed its colors
