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Discussion on: Why do you use web-based Terminal emulators?

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laggardkernel • Edited

Former Hyper user here. The reason I used hyper it's it looked beautiful from the demo picture. Later I moved to kitty cause

  • hyper is heavy, taking about 200MB memory after startup
  • hyper lacks true color support
  • In hyper, even basic features are separated into plugins, like dragging tabs and creating a new tab with the same working dir
  • hyper lacks GPU acceleration
  • throughput rate sucks in hyper, which impacts scroll smoothness in vim

In short, hyper is heavy and sluggish.

I also tried alacritty once. Alacritty won't support tabs, splits. It lacks scrollback, ligature support. It reminds me the Termite terminal on Linux, which is a terminal designed to be used with tmux, or tiling windows only as well.

I use tmux and I need tabs to open different tmux sessions at the same time in one window.