So, Konsole shipped by default with KDE Plasma, my current Desktop Environment. While I don’t have a problem with it, I am interested in what other people are using, because there very likely is something better out there.

Specifically I’ve seen talk of Kitty and Alacritty, although I’ve also read that the dev of Kitty is allegedly kind of a jerk, so I am specifically interested in how Konsole matches up to Alacritty in your experience, but other suggestions and general terminal emulator discussion are also welcome!

  • glibg10b@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Kitty if you have a GPU and run programs that have a lot of output (build scripts and emerge). It uses the GPU for better performance.

    • Laser@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      kitty is great, for me it’s similar to mpv: it does what it’s supposed to do, no fluff. Just straight up performance.

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        Kitty is great until you SSH into a machine where it’s not installed and try to use tmux or some other commandline apps

        • Laser@feddit.de
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          9 months ago

          If it’s a machine you have control over you can install the terminfo. Or setting the TERM variable to something like xterm-256color when connecting, that usually works, though I haven’t tried with tmux.