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[–] tankplanker 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Something wrong there, Ghostty is just as quick for me. Are you using an older PC?

Both load for me in milliseconds, even with fastfetch stuck in my startup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't know about old but definitely not slow. My PC has a ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 3060. All terminals have a fast startup time except for Ghostty.

[–] tankplanker 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

ryzen 5 3600

Yeah thats what I would call old now, lol.

There is 100% something wrong with your Ghostty.

Heres a shitty gif I made to show you how fast Ghostty, Alacritty and Konsole is on my PC, all way less than a second and I am running a ton of background crap including different 4k animated wallpapers. Gif

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That's not old, definitely not for a terminal atleast.

[–] tankplanker 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Its six years old, that's starting to get on a bit now for a processor that was never anywhere near top of the line from AMD when it was new.

I think if you are trying to bling our your desktop and not expecting it to impact performance from an older, less powerful setup then generally speaking you are going to have a bad time. You should be pitching your desktop experience based on what your hardware can handle, there are plenty of terminal options available depending on what you need, just like there are plenty of WM/DMs if you have a lower spec machine.

Having said that, it was pretty damn obvious that there something wrong with ghostty on their setup, and its misleading to say that ghostly is just bad because of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

expecting it to impact performance from an older, less powerful setup then generally speaking you are going to have a bad time

It's a terminal. If it's not good enough for 3600 maybe it's just not good. I don't have 3600 btw.

Probably, it might be a on off issue.

[–] tankplanker 1 points 1 hour ago

Ive said repeatedly that its certain to be an issue with their setup I have even provided proof that its not typical.

Its just a terminal applies to pretty much every type of application. There are lightweight WM, text editors, terminals, etc. etc. for a reason.

I can run my current setup with its 2 different animated 4k wallpapers and all the over shit I have running on my old 4800u that is only slightly slower and it consumes an insane amount of CPU at idle. Just because you can does not mean you should.