What exactly is the deal with all these different terminal emulator programs like Kitty, Alacritty, and Ghostty? I've been using Linux for a couple months now, and I've just been using the one that comes with my DE whenever I have to do something in the terminal. It works. Why would I want to use something different?
>>106565747Some people treat their OS like pinterest mood boards. There's functionally barely any difference.You have hotkeys, aliases and history that are all more or less handled the exact same way.
>>106565747Almost every other thing in real life also comes in a million different flavors why would it be different for open source?
>>106565747Alacritty and Kitty are GPU accelerated and can redraw all their symbols much faster than most DE-default terminals. Alacritty in particular considers it a bug if there's a faster terminal emulator in existence. Fast terminals like this are great for playing fullscreen games with lots of symbols which must redraw the full screen many times per second, like dwarf fortress.
>>106565747I use kitty because it lets you render images in the terminal, especially useful in the ranger file manager
apparently the main difference is how fast they can ram characters through
>>106565892Now that's what I call performance>lights keyboard on fire through stdin
>>106565816I don't see the point. And I need my vram for other things.
>>106566351Do you play a game or use a full screen TUI app where you've noticed screen tearing? No? You don't need a GPU accelerated terminal. Please don't do the retard thing and start debating the existence of these programs just because you have no use for them.
>>106565747120 refresh rate on you scrolling text feels great. In general, I think we should we thriving for better, more performant software. Because the flip side of it is what Windows has become with everything being shitty react render.
>>106565766Tf is a mood board
>>106565747If you are not using vim or other types of terminal apps, it makes no difference.
>>106565892so? which one is faster?
>>106566869It's a collage with a new name, apparently.
>>106566869A bunch of pictures with some specific aesthetic. It's a girl thing, which makes it gay when men do it.
>scrolls the fastest!why? I'll just have to scroll up and read it at my reading speed.
>>106565816Tiling is also nice. Especially if you want to run an editor in your terminal.
rxvt supports perl extensions, I use that to interact with the clipboard and also to click/find urls
>>106565747I've used urxvt for years until I've switched a distro that had worse version packaged, then another one and so on. After few such experiences I just defaulted on xterm. It has good performance, best compatibility and implements all standard (DEC) escape codes and even ones from tektronix. Additionally has sixel support which most terminal emulators lack. There is no point using anything else. These hardware accelerated ones are a meme, they aren't necessarily faster, but they use more resources. 60fps for fucking terminal emulator is not necessary.
>>106568359If I wanted the best possible experience I would look at input lag. Measure and compare various terminals yourself. I bet xterm and st will beat most regardless of your hardware. These hardware accelerated terminals depend on the GPU, the drivers. Your particular model, drivers versions might make your experience good or awful. Here is some random tool that apparently measures latency: https://github.com/frarees/typometer
>>106565747>Why would I want to use something different?I like terminator because it let's me dynamically split it into multiple sessions. It's more handy than tabs.
nobody is gonna post it?
>>106565747basically there are three categories of terminals:- terminals for baby users who think they need a million features to use itde default terminals are like this- terminals for "advanced" users who want even more dumb features to show off what a hacker they arekitty, alacritty, etc- terminals for actually advanced users who realized they don't need any features in their terminal beyond displaying textst, xterm, urxvt, etc.
>>106568744the last category is slower than the second though
>>106565747>Why would I want to use something different?Gimmicks. If you're not interested in gimmicks, don't bother.
>>106569090the third category doesn't bother jockeying over who has the higher number and uses the tool that works better.
>>106566910i am yet to discover a terminal where vim doesn't work.
>tfw too old to notice any sort of lag in the default DE terminals
>>106566351stop generating porn, stephen!
