Like the question above am I just an old man that’s not keeping up with the times or is terminator still a great terminal to use in 2025?

    • stochastictrebuchet@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      6 days ago

      Another happy Kitty user here!

      I use my terminal as an IDE. Kitty makes it (relatively) easy to write custom interactive applets (aka kittens) that open in new panes or communicate between panes. The ssh integration is also really useful: whenever I ssh into my remote work station my fish and helix config gets copied over.

      Judging by the code (a mix of C, python, and go) and the fast release rate, the core maintainer seems to be an utter mad genius – which unfortunately is sometimes reflected in his notoriously abrasive communication style.

      Only thing I’m lacking is persistent remote sessions. The maintainer is not quiet about his dislike of tmux and other multiplexers. It’s wildly inefficient to process every byte twice, he argues. Convincing but Kitty doesn’t currently offer an alternative for remote sessions, which is where I do most of my work. Wezterm has something for this in beta, but misses many of the niceties of Kitty. So I’m still using tmux for everything in Kitty, because it trips me up to have one way of working with panes locally and another way when working remotely.

      I tried Ghostty, if only because the maintainer is an excellent communicator. I found it polished but simple. I couldn’t figure out how to page up the scrollback or search it. I couldn’t rename tab titles. The config format seemed under-documented. I’ll give it another go in a month or so.

  • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
    29·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • magikmw@lemm.ee
    16·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca
      2·
      7 days ago

      And I love the theming options such as transparency. I fell in love with Yakuake a loooong time ago and still love it ! Autohide on outside click and multiple tabbed terminals in the same super easy access window.

  • TechnoCat@lemm.ee
    12·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • daggermoon@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    Use whatever you like. You know your needs better than anybody else. As for me, I like Konsole and I will stick to that.

  • zante@slrpnk.netEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • Tundra@lemmy.ml
      11·
      7 days ago

      theres a cool preset called “futuristic” on the linux version (cool retro term) -with a bit of tweaking you can make it look like a terminal from the alien franchise

  • dharmik@linuxusers.in
    9·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • lordnikon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Lol zerocool is around here too. I have him tagged it’s always fun when we meet in a thread.

  • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    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
    • 7dev7random7@suppo.fi
      1·
      6 days ago

      Launches faster sounds like you have a weird shell config.

      Also scrolling isn’t really existing in a terminal. If you are tail -f somefile then it depends on how fast it is written to, how fast tail is. If you have some TUI tool open it dependa how fast it can emit it’s UI.

      If your program only emits 100MB data each seconds then a terminal sink of 30GB/s wouldn’t really benefit.

      Power users like me run a terminal multiplexer anyways so there is another bottleneck.

      And the configuration is onetime only (if the terminal configuration will be downward compatible with a version 10 years from now).