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I just use konsole. It comes with plasma and is more than good enough for me.

I must be older and even more out of touch than you are, as I only use the default Terminal that came with my distro and I had to do a search to check what were Ghostty and Terminator (I know about the movie, obviously, but I'm also old enough to have been watching it in theatre the year it was first released ;)

I'm an old man. I don't get the appeal of a terminal with hardware acceleration and all that fancy stuff. I use what the distro/DE came with.

I'd like to think there's a difference between "keeping up with the times" and chasing whatever new thing gets advertised.

Unless you're really into number chasing with benchmarks then just keep using whatever you like until something YOU find better comes along.

Also I'm GenZ and just use whatever comes with the DE, it's not an old person thing shakes fist.

I chose Kitty cause of the name and I have never looked at anything else.

I use yakuake (or guake if I still used gnome), I love having a consitent terminal slide down the screen every time I press a shortcut, especially if it's supplememtary to what I'm doing in the graphical shell.

I have never heard of terminator.

A terminal is a terminal. If there is a feature you don't know you need then you don't need it. Run with whatever you have

I switched from terminator to alacritty a while back. Moved to kitty a few months until a bug was fixed. I do try out new terminals occasionally, but nothing feels as nice as alacritty to me so i stay.

Multiple GNOME terminals in one window!

Terminator was originally developed by Chris Jones in 2007 as a simple, 300-ish line python script. Since then, it has become The Robot Future of Terminals. Originally inspired by projects like quadkonsole and gnome-multi-term and more recently by projects like Iterm2, and Tilix, It lets you combine and recombine terminals to suit the style you like. If you live at the command-line, or are logged into 10 different remote machines at once, you should definitely try out Terminator.

terminator sounds great. never heard of it. i did try ghostty, but i can't help myself opening xfce terminal. muscle memory.

Eh, why would you? They're fancy looking but if what you use works for you that's about it.

Is there a reason to change? I use foot terminal, have also used Alacritty and Kitty previously.

I've used GNOME Terminal since 2005.

What's its advantages over Terminator? Does it have any?

The main advantages I have felt with fancy terminals are

• GPU accelerated means scrolling feels smoother
• Nice single configuration file for the terminal which I can easily move around
• Launches slightly faster. Only noticeable when you are launching multiple terminals

I loved terminator but after learning tmux I just don't really see much point in the main feature. I use xfce4-terminal on i3 these days.

I have switched from XTerm to Konsole only a year ago.

I use foot which is Wayland aware and renders Unicode fonts. Honestly I don't need much from the terminal itself as I'm usually in tmux to deal with all the "tabs" and scrollback.

Use whatever you like. You know your needs better than anybody else. As for me, I like Konsole and I will stick to that.

I used terminator until a couple of weeks ago when I moved from i3 to hyprland. Now I use kitty 🤷🏼‍♂️

From a look at the documentation it’s just a fancy terminal. If you don’t really care about theming or image rendering then it’s not something you need. If you’re trying to rice a UI like hyprland then it looks like a good option.

Personally, I don’t see much added value over whatever the default terminal is but I’ve never been one to mess with things that do what they are supposed to.

I'm no connoisseur, but I just want the same feel as I had back in the 90s. No terminal emulator, straight up tty with crisp VGA ROM fonts at some hacky SuperVGA resolution. Before the virtual framebuffer that basically every computer today uses for tty.

Konsole, gnome-terminal and ghostty can all be made to feel right to me. I'm giving ghostty a spin, and I like how it supports custom shaders so I can make it feel even more like home.

Terminator isn't supported anymore as far as I remember. A good substitution for it is Tilix. I'd been using the latter for a while but recently I switched to the new default terminal in Fedora (it had weird name that I unable to remember) and Tilling Shell extension for Gnome.

Afaik terminator is unmaintained but some people still use it. I've heard of Tilix as a good alternative but can't tell you if that's the case as I haven't used either. I change terminals only if there's a feature my current one doesn't have.

I used alacritty (because that's what came with the distro I used, ArcoLinux) until I switched to Wayland where alacritty font scaling was inconsistent across Xorg and Wayland sessions (and I was still switching between the two). So I went to kitty, until I was convinced to switch to foot because it seemed to open faster so I went to it. Then I switched to COSMIC which doesn't let me remove window decorations server-side and neither kitty nor foot supported their removal client side, so I switched to alacritty which did.

I will switch to COSMIC terminal for convenience (as I use COSMIC) when they fix their font rendering (it's like old Alacritty, only that modern Alacritty has fixed it but cosmic-term still hasn't).