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Linux Terminal Emulators Have The Potential Of Being Much Faster (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found my terminal speed to not matter when most of what I do with it is over SSH administrating various boxes.

Probably matters more for riced up vim users and TUI fans since you need a lot of responsiveness.

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am a Vim user and TUI fan. It does not make any difference in my experience to use a fast GPU based terminal. Maybe something like st might startup faster, but that's it.

[–] echindod@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I can tell the difference in a JavaScript terminal and a native one, but yeah. Urxvt is fast enough. So is the gnome terminal