What terminal do you use?

I was a long term user of iTerm but recently made the switch to Hyper.

What terminal do you use and what kind of extensions/tricks/aliases that you use frequently?

Comments

[David]

Why did you switch to Hyper? I've test-driven it and found it to be quite clunky.

I was using iTerm2, but switched to Alacritty. Some of the pros:

• the speed difference is perceptible to me
• it is written in Rust which I'm a huge fan of
• portability across different Linux distros and macOS
• configuration is easy and portable (saved in a dotfile)

cons:

• no tabs (I use tmux)
• single instance so I must move it around (although people have figured out a way to do it w/o any additional plugins or software under the issues tab)
• no status line : I like knowing my resource utilization in real-time without resorting to Mac's Activity Monitor, top, or htop (but certainly less distrations)

It's more for the keyboard shortcut warriors IMO that use emacs/vim with tmux. Hard for me to go back to iTerm2 with tabs now because I have at least five sessions open, each housing a different project or repo, employing tmux plugins like resurrect and continuum give me auto-save and restore on reboots or even connecting remotely. I wish I had known sooner how easy it was to get up and running and learn tmux. I never have to figure out how to re-open all my projects anymore when the system panics or dreading a restart

[Peeyush Man Singh]

I find Terminator the best.

[Avalander]

I mostly use Terminator as well.

[Autumn]

I'm using Kitty github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty
I was using Alacritty, but it didn't allow Fira Code
github.com/alacritty/alacritty

[Ynoa Pedro]

on Windows, windows terminal is pretty solid, also using hyper on everything else

[Ynoa Pedro]

as from right now testing terminus which is beaultiful

[Chris Schneider]

Linux - guake-project.org/
Mac - iterm2.com/

[Ben Overmyer]

In Windows, Windows Terminal.
In Linux, whatever the default is.
In macOS, iTerm2.

[Sebastian Korotkiewicz]

iTerm and the terminal built into the VScode.

[Alberto Bonacina]

When I'm on Linux the default terminal based on the distro, on Mac I use iTerm2 iterm2.com/ , and some time ago Terminus eugeny.github.io/terminus/

[Adem Budak]

Most of the time what comes with the OS. For now, on Debian 10 Plazma, Konsole. konsole.kde.org/