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

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 ;)

"Am I just an old man..."

-Lord Nikon

I definitely am not getting old, nor am I Zero Cool

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 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 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.

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.

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.

On my Mac, I use Retroterm because emulates Old CRT screens - with scan lines and ghosting and stuff .

Does nothing , crashes sometimes, but is Lots of fun if you’re the guy that remembers floppies.

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

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

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

I have never heard of terminator.

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

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've used GNOME Terminal since 2005.

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 have switched from XTerm to Konsole only a year ago.

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

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.