I like Alacritty with the Fish shell
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I use that, plus https://starship.rs/
Starship is really nice. I install it everywhere I use a terminal
I swapped alacrity for kitty and then foot, but same. Wezterm is nice to. But a little on the heavy side.
What made you move from each one? I run Kitty+Zsh on my main distro & Alacritty+fish on my gaming distro, but I can barely tell a difference.
I use ranger and images work better in kitty and more recently in foot as well. And foot is lighter and faster than both.
Add tmux to the mix and you've just described my perfect setup.
I go for Zellij nowadays, it comes out of the box about the same as I get tmux into after a bunch of tweaking. If you like barebones tmux though you might not like Zellij.
I like whatever comes with the distro I'm using.
I like kitty a lot
Alacritty + zsh + tmux
I've used Tilix for years and like it a lot.
Terminator.
When you need to have dozens of sessions open, Terminator is a good option.
There's different terminals???? I just use whatever one comes default. What are the differences?
Customisability is the main draw. Maybe additional features like: support of high colour modes; browser-like tabs; transparency; background images; tile-ability and other interface integration things; ability to show images on the command line; etc.
But as many people have said here, whatever comes with your distro is almost certain to be fine for everyday use, and probably has more customisation than the average user will need.
Edit: Saving on making a second comment; GNOME Terminal is my distro's default and what I use. I also have the venerable xterm installed just in case something goes wrong with GNOME Terminal and I absolutely have to have a terminal right that second. Haven't needed it yet.
If not using a DE there sometimes isn't a default (although there may be a recommendation) so that's a justification to look into it.
Yeah I use GNOME terminal as well but as time goes on becoming more and more of a power user so it's cool to know about my options
Yakuake. F12 in, F12 out. Or in my case Fn+F12 because laptop.
But I'd like a plain old physical teletype.
Kitty + Zsh + PowerLevel10K + [https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix](Modern Unix replacements)
Modern Unix - https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix
Thanks, not sure what happened to my poor link in transit
Alacritty with ohmyzsh
I too use iterm2 on Mac, and have been looking for the Linux alternative. Going to check out what others have said.
Try WezTerm and Guake!
Ok, thanks
Glad to help!
I've used quite a few different ones (such as Alacritty and Kitty), both my preferred DE's native terminals are nice (Konsole and gnome-terminal/kgx) but as of recently I've been trying out Black Box and I'm enjoying it so far!
It supports the colored title bar indicators for SSH / Sudo (purple / red respectively) which is one of those small things but I appreciate it. kgx supports it, but doesn't really have any customization options.
foot if on Wayland. st if on Xorg. But I'd love something like foot with tmux built-in.
I use Alacritty with bash
Either xfce-terminal or st
foot with foot-server in the background, instantly opens
I'm a simple man; I like to use GNOME so any terminal that feels at home on GNOME suits me. Currently, I've been in a phase in which I primarily use GNOME Console because of how GNOME Terminal doesn't play nice with tiling managers. Though Black Box is definitely tempting me.
Tilix is nice, other than that I tend to just use whichever is packaged
On my main workstation I use Kitty, but everywhere else I use the Chrome Secure Shell Extension.
Kitty on Linux and macOS. Works fine, but you have to install the terminal profile on some systems which is tedious (but easy).
Also, everyone should be using mosh/mobile shell as it’s awesome.
I tend to do a lot of remote terminal from windows so mobaxterm and vs code terminal…
I was in the same boat, w iTern on my work Mac. I ended up with guake for drop-down term, and WezTerm for my terminal app. I use OMZSH for my shell w p10k for my theme. Dope as hell.
https://dev.to/abdfnx/oh-my-zsh-powerlevel10k-cool-terminal-1no0
Runs way snappier then Starship, looks similar.
Fish is okay too for a shell.