I have — at one point or another, I’m pretty sure that I’ve tried every Linux virtual terminal program out there that’s been packaged for major distros in the past twenty years — but it was some time back, and I don’t remember specifics. For me, time to start and text throughput was a pretty dominant factor, and urxvt (for X11) or foot (for Wayland) ranked highly there.
Don’t take this as zinging alacrity as unusual or whatever. I mean, I don’t care about tabs, for example, because I do “tabs” inside the terminal, using tmux, so I’m fine using something like urxvt, foot, or alacrity, but many people don’t, and care a bunch about having multiple tabs in a virtual terminal program. Time to open terminals, which I care about, may not matter much if you launch them with the mouse instead of whacking a key combination – by the time your fingers get back to the keyboard, the terminal is probably up.
Most virtual terminal programs work more-or-less the same way, outside something exotic like cool-retro-term, and you’ll be fine with choosing any of them.
Yeah I didn’t read it as a negative at all, but thanks for explaining anyway. Never got to the point of seriously trying tmux yet, but I will eventually. I understand it does more than just “tabs in your terminal”.
Have you tried Alacritty? And if you have, what are your opinions of it compared to Kitty?
I have — at one point or another, I’m pretty sure that I’ve tried every Linux virtual terminal program out there that’s been packaged for major distros in the past twenty years — but it was some time back, and I don’t remember specifics. For me, time to start and text throughput was a pretty dominant factor, and
urxvt(for X11) orfoot(for Wayland) ranked highly there.Good to know, thanks. As a noob any information is useful to me.
Don’t take this as zinging
alacrityas unusual or whatever. I mean, I don’t care about tabs, for example, because I do “tabs” inside the terminal, usingtmux, so I’m fine using something likeurxvt,foot, oralacrity, but many people don’t, and care a bunch about having multiple tabs in a virtual terminal program. Time to open terminals, which I care about, may not matter much if you launch them with the mouse instead of whacking a key combination – by the time your fingers get back to the keyboard, the terminal is probably up.Most virtual terminal programs work more-or-less the same way, outside something exotic like cool-retro-term, and you’ll be fine with choosing any of them.
Yeah I didn’t read it as a negative at all, but thanks for explaining anyway. Never got to the point of seriously trying
tmuxyet, but I will eventually. I understand it does more than just “tabs in your terminal”.