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What terminal do you use?

Hossam Mourad on July 08, 2020

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?

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David • Edited

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

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Peeyush Man Singh

I find Terminator the best.

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Avalander

I mostly use Terminator as well.

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Autumn

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

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Ynoa Pedro

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

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Ynoa Pedro

as from right now testing terminus which is beaultiful

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Chris Schneider
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Ben Overmyer

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

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Sebastian Korotkiewicz

iTerm and the terminal built into the VScode.

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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/

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Adem Budak

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