what is the best linux terminal? I have been using alacritty for years and have been doing well. But I don’t think kitty and st. I was wondering if any new projects have come out in recent years.

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    People keep recommending terminal emulators, but I think they’re missing your point.

    I’m not aware of anyone making new terminals these days. In my opinion DIGITAL is still king. They are getting a bit hard to come by. VT220 used to be the gold standard, but a VT420 or VT520 is still worth it if you can find one.

    Looks like there are a few VT420s on eBay going for up to $200. Prices aren’t what they used to be.

    • Sbauer@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Using ptyxis even on KDE, it’s neat. Very clean and some interesting integration with distrobox, definitely recommend.

          • snaggen@programming.dev
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            7 months ago

            Well, that was something… I have used ligatures in my code editor for quite a few years now, and I have NEVER been confused about the ambiguity this person is so upset about. Why? I have never ever seen the Unicode character for not equals in a code block, simply since it is not a valid character in any known language. In fact, I have never even seen it in a String where it actually would be legal, probably since nobody knows how to type that using a standard keyboard. This whole article felt like someone with a severe diagnose have locked in on some hypothetical correctness issue, that simply isn’t a problem in the real world.

            But, if you for some reason find ligatures confusing, then you shouldn’t use them. But, just to be clear, there is not a right of wrong like this blog post tries to argue, it is a matter of personal taste.

            • apostrofail@lemmy.world
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              7 months ago

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68

              ALGOL 68, mother of all the C-likes, has ≠. There ace quite a few languages support Unicode such as ≠. What is not equals then? Exclamation mark + equals? Forward slash + equals? Tilde + equals? Less than + greater than? Equals + forward slash + equals. What is more clear than all of those aforementioned options from ‘modern programming languages’? 2260 ≠ Not Equal To. Type what you mean, specifically. Your programming language doesn’t support it? Your language is hurting clarity.

              • snaggen@programming.dev
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                7 months ago

                Good to know that every time I feel the need to use ALGOL 68, I must remember to disable ligatures. Still not sure this is going to be a huge problem 😂

                • apostrofail@lemmy.world
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                  7 months ago

                  No need to ignore history. Older ALGOL versions used several now-Unicode operators. A lot of language support it. You have most of the APL + its dialects (such as BQN), theorem provers like Agda and LEAN 4, functional languages supporting Unicode Preludes like Haskell and PureScript, MATLAB, Mathematica, RPL, Raku, Julia, AppleScript, and of course the TI BASICs. Not to mention ≠ is what is used in general math(s) & handwriting. All this to say, it’s more common than you are leading on.

  • muhyb@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    Depends on what you need actually. I was doing fine with urxvt on Xorg, so foot is a perfect alternative for me on Wayland.

  • edric@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Tilda because you can roll it down from the top of your screen with one key press.

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    7 months ago

    Foot because it’s sway default. It’s also configurable, has shortcuts and sixel support.

  • aordogvan@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Surprised nobody mentioned Yakuake. Just discovered it’s just for kde. Been using it for years. It hides at the top of my screen and slides down when the cursor hits the top. Full desktop when not used and can access it no matter which app I’m using.

  • thayerw@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    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?

  • snekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    all of the fancy features that other terminals provide, I get with Tmux, so any emulator for me. I like transparent themes and that’s easy to set up in Alacritty, so that’s what I usually get

  • Andy@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    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.

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      +1 for Wezterm, is 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.

    • med@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      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.