I'm running Git Bash since the day I installed Git. It's been awesome since it's been stable, fast and I prefer the UNIX-like environment.
What terminal do you use and why?
I'm running Git Bash since the day I installed Git. It's been awesome since it's been stable, fast and I prefer the UNIX-like environment.
What terminal do you use and why?
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Windows Terminal
Windows Terminal best terminal
YAS
it's like play Justin Bieber to an alien who doesn't know Michael Jackson exists.
Have you tried to contribute something to it? 👀
I work on a mac so I use iTerm, with a zsh shell and I'm using the spaceship theme of zsh so I can see git details as well as my package version and what version of node I'm using!
Looks so 🔥🔥 tbh 💯
Thank you!
Gnome Terminal
I need to look into that, for sure 👀
Hyper ♥️ It got super awesome plugins and I can customize it in any way I want 🙂
Yeah, I found it randomly and now I used it daily, super light and fast(compare with other base-electron app !!) + full customizable
I've heard some good stuff about hyper 🔥🔥
Windows Terminal with Git Bash and Ubuntu Bash :)
Windows terminal with WSL2. so it's real bash on real linux. I've moved most of my dev work in here because a lot of the stuff I do runs on linux servers anyway, so developing and local testing in WSL2 reduces a lot of possible issues, very often due to slight differences in dependencies. On the plus side, being in a full linux environment means access to not only bash and gnu tools, but also full on linux programs that aren't available if you're running in git bash.
Have you used WSL before WSL2, btw? 👀
yes, and I actually still use both, since WSL has faster Windows file access
In Linux I normally use
Tildadrop down terminal orGuakeorgnome-terminalif I have to; in Windows I useHyperterminal mostly, but useWindows Terminalon occasion. Then I use my own 'UniShellect' tool to load other shells.Are you talking about this? 👀
Yes :)
iTerm
first I used the Default terminal of the Linux but it's to much boring for me then I was installed ohmyzsh terminal its fairly seems to be good but his speed to much slow then I come back to default terminal of the Linux . I Prefer speed instead of funs...
I guess everything comes with its price 😉
I'm using powershell with starship so far, it's awesome and so much better than the default command prompt on Windows: git sensitive, more user friendly, ergonomic, etc
Life changing !
Looks clean 💯
I tried many times to install other terminals like Hyper etc and for some reason they were always really slow compared to the default mac one or linux one.
I have though a good set of custom functions and aliases that I commonly use.
So, you went back to default mac one? 👀
As mentioned yep. Default one with a strong number of functions and aliases
Zsh Shell with powerline10k it's just so awesome and the scripts i added on my own in .zshrc instead if plugin installed by oh my zsh or plug as they slow down so yeah its way better now.
Awesome you find your solution 👍😎
Windows - WT if available(preferring cmd, ps , wsl shell)
Linux - gnome terminal preferably (shell bash, zsh) althought any terminal(xfce, konsole, xterm) is just fine as long it's bash or zsh shell
Like to keep it minimal if I can open an cmd and run then that's it
Although I keep updating my setup such as using WT on my personal machine, while my work pc still use basic cmd terminals mostly
Yup, the main thing is what works for you and how efficient you are with it 👍😉
Ive used termite, alacritty, xterm, and st. Termite is greatest, but because of its age it has issues building on modern distros, so I use st its blazing fast and very customizable.
I'm a big suckless fan, but I switched from st to kitty, because of sixel (I can view images right in the terminal now). As soon as I get st working with sixel, I'll switch back.
Which one are you using now? 👀
I used iTerm + Atom for a while but switched to the terminal built into VS Code once I moved to that IDE. I really like having all the tools I need built into a single app, but iTerm was fantastic and had no issues using it either.
What made you switch from Atom? 🤔
I still love UI of it so much, tbh 😍
iTerm2 because it can do this fancy thing with "Quake-like" console that drops down from the top of the screen ^_^
And because it's handy to be able to show/hide the terminal on any workspace even above full-screen application.
Seems it could be my choice when I'm on Mac 👍
I use Powershell on Windows, and ZSH on Linux. Powershell just has better integration on Windows, specifically with Docker Desktop for me, which I use heavily. ZSH is my preference though for all the useful customizations.
I need to try that thing, thanks 👍💯
! My Terminal
I just today read a post about terminals and I tried to use a new terminal for fun, learning, and being cool. So I tried the starship and It felt pretty cool too.
The link won't work ☹
Sorry if this posted twice. Actually hit the post button around 1500, but when I came back to the tab, it was hung. At any rate...
Given your "prefer the UNIX-like environment" statement, I'll assume you mean "terminal program for Windows". In which case:
Speaking of Windows 10/WSL: if I don't need X redirection, firing up the WSL Ubuntu app is probably the least-painless, most fully-functional option for a "UNIX-like environment to either work in or jump out from".
Yup, you got me right 😉
I see some lesser know options here, def would need to take a deeper dive on these, thanks 👍
For a long time I have used Kitty and later Alacritty. After switching over to Windows , Windows Terminal with Alpine WSL (barebone gnu utilities was enough for my daily usage) was my first choice for its speed, and spent some time in Fluent Terminal as well. I am planning to switch over to hackintosh, where maybe I would go with iTerm, not sure though.
TL;DR - Alacritty + Tmux
Alacritty with tmux. Using alacritty forced met to get familiar with tmux. Although I'm not even close to being a pro tmux user using tmux greatly helps when connecting to servers. You don't have to create multiple sessions for the sake of running multiple things parallel-y or monitoring a bunch of different stats. One ssh session and use tmux to multiplex your terminal.
Super useful now in the remote world. We have to ssh into machines and servers all the time and tmux comes in handy. If you're pairing and are constrained by network. Both of you can now just ssh into the machine and connect to the same tmux session (instead of sharing screen)
Tmux can be used on any terminal - but Alacritty forced me to use it. Alacritty provides no panes and provides for only one shell at a time.
Awesome insight, thanks for this! 👍🔥
I've never been super picky when it comes to terminals, as long as there are tabs I use whatever. Mainly Konsole with fish shell. No particular reason why I use Konsole. Fish shell I've gotten used to the colored feedback when typing commands.
Forgot to mention on my work laptop Win10 I use cmder.
I don't know if I'll ever be able to give Fish up. I love being able to start a new function with
funced/funcsave, and also the abbreviation system.Yeah fish got so many good features once you get used to it, it feels so weird to use bash. I have quite a few abbr, and functions too.
How many have you gone through? 👀
Not many tbh. Cmder on Windows, and powershell. On Linux, terminator, alacritty and Konsole, the latest with tmux and I'm set.
For local work, either Windows Terminal or the terminal built into VSCode. For remote work, kitty, though I'm not married to either, and I'm starting to use VSCode more and more for remote work as I get more used to it and change my work flow to adapt to it.
Let me guess, you're well familiar with this? 👀
Familiar with it, but for now, I'm just using VS Code Remote SSH or git clone'ing the repository and working on it locally. The Remote SSH takes a bit of startup time since it seems to download and run the "server" fresh every time. Been having internet issues lately, so I've been doing more cloning to the local machine, but the Remote SSH is very convenient once I have it open.
I use kitty. When kitty isn't available I use termite. If I can't have any of those I go for whatever is the default. Unless the default is
xterm, in that case I would try to installlxterminalorxfce4-terminal.For the shell I prefer
zsh.I use kitty too. I work on macOS and I find it has enough added value over the 'native' Terminal.app with much better performance than iTerm.
Cmder is a pretty nice one
cmder.net/
Somewhat it feels underrated for its simplicity 😉
kitty... has multiplexing support.. so no need for tmux (i know tmux can do moar... but slow af)... and it's fast, snappy, has ligature support, configurable... it's noice!
config: gist.github.com/audacioustux/4967b... (there's alacritty config too.. but alacritty + tmux was shitty experience for me.. tmux slows down everything)
Sounds interesting! Especially the terminal multiplexing part. Will be checking out Kitty! :D
This. Here's a good break down about kitty sessions from another dev.to post from @dylanirlbeck.
dev.to/dylanirlbeck/kitty-sessions...
I have iterm2 installed but I generally only ever need to use the integrated terminal in VSCode.
I like how it's all baked in, too.. 👍 Sometimes I even miss the preview panel, like it is in Codesandbox or Codepen 😉
Just the default Terminal for Mac.
I've thought about switching to ITerm or Hyper for the fun customization options, but there's something to be said about how fast, simple, and resource-light Terminal is. :P
Did you try them after all? 👀
I use either of the following:
I stopped using iTerm2 a while back as its pros were shading away but not it's memory usage ;-)
Tilix with zsh.
iTerm2 with Zsh ❤️
On Mac, ITerm2 with zsh & oh my zsh framework (like plug-ins alias & themes)
I use the terminal in vscode too, it s very convenient
Windows Terminal with WSL and powershell. Best of both worlds :)
Right in the middle between the two 😂😂
I started with bash, it has been good to me for several years but now I'm trying out fish because themes!! And I have yet to find fault with it
Kitty and Termux. Sometimes I also use hyper.js, but it can be slow.
At the end of the day speed is my priority, too 👍
But it's always nice to have something fancy too for the low cost of resources 👍😉
iTerm2 on Mac OS and Terminus, now Tabby on Windows.
The 2nd is a recent discovery having a whole lot of features such as selection of shells (Powershell, Git Bash, etc) per connection, tabbed support, saving sessions, themes (most popular ones for iTerm2, Linux ones work for Terminus) and lastly, customisable config using CSS and YAML exportable for backups.
Never looked back at Windows terminal, putty, MobaXterm since 😁
Windows Terminal
Have you tried to contribute smth? 👀
I use Terminal in Linux Lite, then I install
tmuxand setting it for run in Terminal startup with this code in first line of.bashrc:Mac Terminal with zsh.
I used Hyper for a while, but everything I liked about Hyper is faster and simpler with zsh.
tmux with bash in Linux, the new Windows Terminal (github.com/microsoft/terminal) in Windows
On Mac and Linux I use iTerm , with zsh + powerlevel10k + Nord
On Windows it was mainly cmder
A lot of info going on there 👀👍
xfce-terminal, which comes out of the box for xfce desktop environments (I'm on Manjaro)
St ftw
iTerm2 on Mac.
It is like a swiss army knife on butter🇨🇭 🔪🧈 😀
I use Windows the Windows Terminal, with the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 and Zsh
KDE user so I use Konsole mostly.
Oh My ZSH
VSCode Terminal with WSL and powershell.
Terminator + Brogrammer Theme 😎
Windows terminal w/ PowerShell on windows, alacritty w/ bash on macOS.
Built-in PHPStorm Terminal :)
In my GnuLinux Terminator a terminal multiplexer, it have the same functionality like Tmux but Terminator is more fancy, and in my Android SmartPhone Termux with tmux😉😁👍✌️
Mac OS: iTerm
Windows: Windows Terminal
Bash console
Terminus
Hyper and iTerm 2 with Oh My Zsh.
Power shell
Alacritty (on Linux desktop)
wsl 2 ubuntu 20.04 + windows terminal ( + oh my zsh )
Haven't found the time to check Windows Terminal out, so just Command Prompt (with WSL).
The mint terminal default, I already changed so many times my o.s that I dont want to bother changing it
I use MobaXterm for local and remote. In local I've got it running Ubuntu WSL2 with Zsh.
Just default terminal in MacOS works fine to me.
Cygwin64 Terminal
Tilix.
Need to explore it more, for sure 👍
Konsole, which is KDE's default. It's fast, stable, it has a lot more options that I'll ever need. Inside the terminal, I use ZSH.
Kitty with JetBrains Mono NERD patched font. I loved Alacritty until I found out it did not support font ligatures, so I switched to Kitty. Overall I am very happy with it, and it seems quite fast.
iTerm2 (+ oh my zsh + a few plugins)
For Linux I use gnome and have gnome-terminal pre-installed so I use that and for the shell itself, I have zsh with zinit setup and then with starship as the theme and with windows I have Windows Terminal installed and I'm usually using powershell (if not, wsl ubuntu with the zsh setup), I have yet to try starship with powershell so might try that soon.
I mostly use Git Bash on Windows
Mac: switch between Terminal and ITerm
Linux: I just SSH in and usually use Fish as a shell
Never heard of Git-Bash till today
I'm using Termite
Alacritty and Terminator
Alacritty mainly for vim (really fast but no multiwindow/split support) and iterm2 for splits
oh-my-zsh with starship
Why did I have to scroll that far to find Cmder on Windows!
It has all Unix commands ready in PATH so that you can git init or cat instantly on every machine.
cmder.net/
Ubuntu's terminal, with tmux
Linux Terminal on Chrome OS (Pixelbook)
Terminal/PowerShell on Windows 10
Integrated terminal in Visual Studio Code
ZSH + iTerm 2 = <3
Windows Terminal. Very helpful.
This fork of st cause I like modularity. Also because it's super fast. Alacritty for when I need images in terminal.
Pantheon Terminal. Comes installed on elementary OS and is fast as heck. No fancy features but I don't need them either.
I prefer HYPER, can't say its completely STABLE as I have seen it crashing
BUT its highly customisable and I love that about it
Cmdr. I tried it a couple of years ago and never switched back to GitBash.
I recently just switched to Mac, so now i'm using iTerm zsh, which is nice, but previously i was using MTPutty and Git Bash on windows.
zsh on ubuntu with ITerm so i can have nice drop down
Im using bash with spaceship with my custom config for some modules
On Linux -> Alactritty
On Mac -> iTerm2
The default Terminal for Mac, but I use Fish shell (which is the best shell imo).
cmder for windows
zsh with p10k
iTerm2 with zsh ♥️
Love my iterm with ohmyzsh dev.to/avantsekai/terminal-with-it...
Oh My Zsh!
I just switch to ZSH with oh-my-zsh. Love it! Especially the git plugins.
I've considered this option, especially for the customization options 🔥🔥
Konsole!!!
Tilix. I started using it because it was written in D, but it is a good emulator.
On windows I use cmd and git bash (whatever that one is.
iTerm2 with oh my zsh!
Fish shell in Termux in an Android phone
I use gitbash
Terminal - >Alacrity
Shell -> ZSH
Prompt -> Starship
Inspirational 😉💯
Yup, that's exactly why I did that 😉
TERMUX on my ANDROID device. Developing on clamshells is sooo 2015 😎
Guake
Depends on OS:
Terminator + Zsh Shell in linux
Terminal gitbash in VSCode in Windows
The Dec VT09 is a great terminal. Really customizable too - I can draw on it and add stickers.
Talking about taking everything to the next level 😂😂
On Mac and Linux I use ITerm with ZSH
With powerlevel10k as the theme and Nord for colors
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My baby kitty.
For Windows I like Hyper or Git Bash 🙂
cmder.net/ :)
Hyper terminal with ohmyzsh
ZSH because default MacOS, but still adapting from bash. Things like full text highlight when moving cursor still throw me off at times.
Wish I was cool enough to be a tcsh 🧙🏼♂️.
Got yourself covered on all sides, good job! 👍
How is the transition between them? How often do you change platforms?
Windows CMD. Because I use Windows 10 and I don't encounter any problem.
I used windows 10 and it fast as hell bro
I use Konsole, it is the default terminal on Manjaro Linux KDE.
Why? It was pre-installed on the system + I had no troubles with it.