I’ve been using Linux in an academic setting for years, but only recently migrated fully to using it as my only operating system at home.
I use the terminal quite often, not as much as some users, but often enough that having to open Konsole all the time and manage it’s windows was a minor small annoyance.
But a floating terminal is such a simple solution and it’s so fun. Pictured here is Yakuake. Press F12 the little window shows up ready to use, no matter where I am, press F12 and it collapses again. I can leave a package compiling, updates running, I can use it with htop or whatever I need. F12, BOOP, terminal.
It’s like a fidget toy.
I’m sure this will not amuse most users, but it’s really fun.
Dropdown terminals always remind me of bringing up the console in video games—especially Quake 3 engine games.
One of them is actually called Guake in honour of that.
I thought that was also the case for the one OP is talking about, ya kuake
Good point, can't believe I missed that one all this time.