My journey of using terminal emulators began together with my introduction to Linux about 7 years ago. GNOME terminal was my first as it came pre-i...
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100% agree. Anything you have to log in to, with all the telemetry that implies, and isn't free software is a massive red flag.
It doesn't matter if the people behind it are all honest. The people behind the next thing you install might not be.
Pitching itself as the future of terminals basically implies that the future is closed-source, and encourages people to think that's a good thing, when really it's something we should be leaving behind like fossil fuels.
This is a good topic to discuss, if I am not wrong at the moment all of code editors or IDEs that I have installed are having telemetry in them, besides only vim (neovim) and emacs.
I have VSCode, Sublime, Zed, Jetbrain's IDEs and some other more obscure proprietary editors installed. Most of them have telemetry enabled and as long as it is anon telemetry I do not mind leaving it on if it helps to deliver better product. I also do not mind to share telemetry (anon or not) in case if product offers certain features that I need or like, basically selling my soul due to my preference of their product (Jetbrains).
But in the case of Warp I do not really feel happy to login due to the fact that according to them it is needed for specific functionality, which I will not use, and now I have to feel unsafe in the sense that who knows what they are collecting, even with disabled telemetry. I understand that the product is most probably intended for enterprise that's where the money is, enterprise will not care about those stuffs and it is fine, however if they could just leave out signin procedure till the moment I decide I want cloud/collaboration features, the popularity of Warp would grow I think.
I do not necessarily agree about the second statement, I do not mind closed-source as long as there is a valid reason, however I agree that encouraging people that it is a good thing or standard thing is a very detrimental to dev and open source community while consequently affecting all privacy aware software users. Not really sure if Warp would be widely adopted outside of enterprise though, still skeptical about the adoption and impact it could have.
Finally I found out how to make warp display my custom terminal theme. Thanks for the hint! Good article!
Glad it helped you! Warp is a nice terminal, but some settings are kinda scattered making it a little confusing initially, it gets easier though. Not as customazible as iTerm2 but does the job, especially considering that they listen to the community and add the requested customazations, like transparency which was relatively recent addition.