I've always been happiest with xfce4-terminal, though I'm using Konsole currently until XFCE fully supports Wayland.
Way back when, I was more than happy with rxvt.
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st on Xorg and foot on Wayland
I've been using xterm, urxvt, and st. Also tested alacrity, kitty, and wezterm. Your shell also plays a critical role in your terminal usage (but I won't deviate here).
For my use-case, the latter are overkill so I stayed with st. The only missing feature for me was image support even though I use it sporadically. To cover that I use a script that relies on ueberzug or ucollage if I need to browse folders.
I've wrote a small post about ucollage if you're interested.
Cosmic term is nice. Still just alpha, so there are rough edges though.
I see is a alacritty fork. what does it have more?
Splits, ligatures tabs and more
Since we are talking about terminals, you are probably talking about abuse of ligatures
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ghostty looks promising, but it's in "closed beta" for now. When it's released, it will be public and open source. :)
Foot because it's sway default. It's also configurable, has shortcuts and sixel support.
Xterm for me. As others have shown there are other ones that are newer than that but Xterm has become my favorite.
Am I the only one that’s fine with whatever the OS provides out of the box? Like, as long as I can turn the bell off and change the font, I’m chillin, and I have yet to run into a terminal that doesn’t provide those options.
Curious to hear what drives people to seek out other options (besides tiling, that I understand, I’m a tabs guy myself tho)
In my case it's resource consumption, efficiency the impact with the windows manager I use, how much is keyboard controllable. It seems strange to me that a linux user uses the default applications. The beauty of linux is the huge variety and the ability to customize. If you use allova ready-made things, a mac or windows is fine too
It seems strange to me that a linux user uses the default applications
I sorta get what you’re saying, but rather than just pick any random distro and handpick every application myself, I put effort into finding a distro which has the most default apps that I’m happy with. I use KDE Neon because I like Dolphin, Konsole, Konqueror, and the pre-installed version of VLC; however, I DON’T use the default email client, text editor, etc.
I don't know I never felt the need to customize the terminal. I just like what it comes with. It feels wrong to change that. Black background and colored text is fine. The rest of the OS though damn it's like a fucking birthday party! Nothing's at default ffs
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What's wrong with kitty?
I've been using kitty for some time didn't had any issues, and multiplexing is useful.
PS: i used tmux for many years, and still use on headless
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For me: Wezterm. It does pretty much everything. I don't think Alacritty/Kitty etc. offer anything over it for my usage, and the developer is a pleasure to engage with.
Second place is Konsole -- it does a lot, is easy to configure, and obviously integrates nicely with KDE apps.
Honorable mention is Extraterm, which has been working on cool features for a long time, and is now Qt based.
+1 for Wezterm, it also had image support that Alacritty didn't have, which I needed for Yazi to work.
I've heard good things about Warp too but Wezterm is where I'll be for now.
I wanted to love it, but I keep getting crashes in mixed dpi environments on wayland.
I moved to foot instead. Bare bones, but unobtrusive enough. Shame the scrollbar is jank.
There is no one-size-fits-all, but for fits most, you're looking at KDE's Konsole or GNOME's new Terminal (formerly Ptyxis). Everything else is going to be niche, with special use cases. What are your specific needs?
Depends on what you need actually. I was doing fine with urxvt on Xorg, so foot is a perfect alternative for me on Wayland.
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A Windows VM running Windows terminal, SSH'd back into the host, obviously.
Honestly I stick with whatever the default is and never had a problem that led me to find anything else.
Tilda because you can roll it down from the top of your screen with one key press.
Tilda is barely maintained anymore, you can get Tilix that has the same quake like feature. You can also add the quake terminal extension to your favorite alternative if you use gnome.
Is it better than yaquake? I'm genuinely curious.
It's roughly the same. I never used the tabbing features, so I can't comment. But until wayland came along, it was always there for me, working away just fine.
Tilix is great, complete for my needs.
I don't know why more people haven't mentioned tilix.
Makes me wonder if I'm missing out by using it 😂
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I run multiple terminal apps. I thought I would try a few, and I never deleted any of them.