I'm in the Alacrity+Zellij cargo cult
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Alacritty because I like how it handles bitmap fonts and I need bitmap fonts in my life.
guake and conemu
I like terminology
It’s quick, gpu accelerated, can natively display images, and I’m not sure what else.
I don’t use the rest of enlightenment de but have stuck with terminology for years
What are the benefits if Gpu-accelarated terminals? From my understanding, that's a really negligible difference.
Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport's Terminal 2.
iterm2 is near perfect on macOS, for Linux I usually use Alacritty or Foot
kitty terminal + zsh shell, two fast and customizable tools
I don't have one specific as my favorite anymore and currently use Konsole from KDE. If you like tinkering with files and want it highly customizable through configuration files instead a gui, then probably Kitty is the best (and the closest to being my favorite). Alacritty is also a good one, but its quite simple and lacks some features in my opinion. I didn't try too many, but these 3 are the top three I would consider using in the ~~feature~~ future.
Kitty, cute name and logo
Would be foot, but I'm using a font with ligatures so it's kitty
Guake. Has been for years. I am in and out the terminal all the time, so F12 works well for me. Plus I used to play Quake and used the in game terminal to do all kinds of things. Plus I'm an old RISC OS kid and F12 was the key to get the "star line".
Call me lazy if you like, but I use GNOME terminal. Comes as standard with my distro. Does what I need. Supports fonts that aren't pixel fonts and has various look and feel tweaks accessible by GUI if I really want to get in there. I do that once after every fresh install and it's been a while since then.
Given that I loved a bit of Quake back in the day, you'd think I'd like drop down terminals like ddterm and Guake (which might not work on Wayland?), but weirdly no. I like it in a box I can move around.
I also keep the ancient xterm installed just in case and for when I get nostalgic for the old pixel fonts, but it's not exactly my go-to.
Terminology with the Nyan Cat cursor! :3 ^.^
QTerminal, xterm, and of course, the good ol' Linux console when I don't wanna do anything graphical.