Like the question above am I just an old man that’s not keeping up with the times or is terminator still a great terminal to use in 2025?

    • stochastictrebuchet@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      6 months ago

      Another happy Kitty user here!

      I use my terminal as an IDE. Kitty makes it (relatively) easy to write custom interactive applets (aka kittens) that open in new panes or communicate between panes. The ssh integration is also really useful: whenever I ssh into my remote work station my fish and helix config gets copied over.

      Judging by the code (a mix of C, python, and go) and the fast release rate, the core maintainer seems to be an utter mad genius – which unfortunately is sometimes reflected in his notoriously abrasive communication style.

      Only thing I’m lacking is persistent remote sessions. The maintainer is not quiet about his dislike of tmux and other multiplexers. It’s wildly inefficient to process every byte twice, he argues. Convincing but Kitty doesn’t currently offer an alternative for remote sessions, which is where I do most of my work. Wezterm has something for this in beta, but misses many of the niceties of Kitty. So I’m still using tmux for everything in Kitty, because it trips me up to have one way of working with panes locally and another way when working remotely.

      I tried Ghostty, if only because the maintainer is an excellent communicator. I found it polished but simple. I couldn’t figure out how to page up the scrollback or search it. I couldn’t rename tab titles. The config format seemed under-documented. I’ll give it another go in a month or so.

  • bigboismith@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    A terminal is a terminal. If there is a feature you don’t know you need then you don’t need it. Run with whatever you have

  • daggermoon@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 months ago

    Use whatever you like. You know your needs better than anybody else. As for me, I like Konsole and I will stick to that.

    • lordnikon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Lol zerocool is around here too. I have him tagged it’s always fun when we meet in a thread.

  • Dagamant@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    From a look at the documentation it’s just a fancy terminal. If you don’t really care about theming or image rendering then it’s not something you need. If you’re trying to rice a UI like hyprland then it looks like a good option.

    Personally, I don’t see much added value over whatever the default terminal is but I’ve never been one to mess with things that do what they are supposed to.

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    I’m no connoisseur, but I just want the same feel as I had back in the 90s. No terminal emulator, straight up tty with crisp VGA ROM fonts at some hacky SuperVGA resolution. Before the virtual framebuffer that basically every computer today uses for tty.

    Konsole, gnome-terminal and ghostty can all be made to feel right to me. I’m giving ghostty a spin, and I like how it supports custom shaders so I can make it feel even more like home.

  • Alex@lemmy.ml
    1·
    6 months ago

    I use foot which is Wayland aware and renders Unicode fonts. Honestly I don’t need much from the terminal itself as I’m usually in tmux to deal with all the “tabs” and scrollback.