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How to Install And Uninstall Alacritty Terminal Emulator on Ubuntu

The terminal emulator is one of the most controversial applications in Linux. There are many emulators, but in this post, I will show you Alacritty Terminal - the fastest terminal emulator for Linux.

What is Alacritty?

According to Alacritty is a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator works on macOS, Ubuntu, BSD, and Windows. It’s free and open-source software that strongly focus on simplicity and performance. And it features Vi mode, search, Vi search etc.

Prerequisites?

  • Operating system: Linux - Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.10 with 2GB RAM (4GB preferable)
  • You can use a terminal to run Linux script
  • A user account with sudo privileges

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