Linux

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).

Prefer baratty

Edit: baratty -> bara tiddy
This is a very good joke

Terminal emulators are pretty niche. I also tend to stick with what's included with the DE. I've only used a third party terminal when I used gnome. Blackbox, as the one included in gnome at the time was still using gtk3.

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 have never heard of terminator.

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