what is the best linux terminal? I have been using alacritty for years and have been doing well. But I don’t think kitty and st. I was wondering if any new projects have come out in recent years.
Xterm for me. As others have shown there are other ones that are newer than that but Xterm has become my favorite.
Foot with tmux is my goto.
Definitely a favourite. Both. No necessarily at the same time 🙂
It’s between konsole and kitty for me. Both are great.
Tilix is great, complete for my needs.
I don’t know why more people haven’t mentioned tilix.
Makes me wonder if I’m missing out by using it 😂
Hahah, maybe we are! But it’s damn good.
For me: Wezterm. It does pretty much everything. I don’t think Alacritty/Kitty etc. offer anything over it for my usage, and the developer is a pleasure to engage with.
Second place is Konsole – it does a lot, is easy to configure, and obviously integrates nicely with KDE apps.
Honorable mention is Extraterm, which has been working on cool features for a long time, and is now Qt based.
I wanted to love it, but I keep getting crashes in mixed dpi environments on wayland.
I moved to foot instead. Bare bones, but unobtrusive enough. Shame the scrollbar is jank.
Oh, is that #4948?
Seems likely! Not me, but my experience mirrors it pretty closely
+1 for Wezterm, it also had image support that Alacritty didn’t have, which I needed for Yazi to work.
I’ve heard good things about Warp too but Wezterm is where I’ll be for now.
kitty with fish
I’m somewhere between Kitty and Ptyxis.
Ptyxis is default on Bluefin, which I’m on now.
Recommend. Really nice container integration with distrobox.
Using ptyxis even on KDE, it’s neat. Very clean and some interesting integration with distrobox, definitely recommend.
Tilda because you can roll it down from the top of your screen with one key press.
Tilda is barely maintained anymore, you can get Tilix that has the same quake like feature. You can also add the quake terminal extension to your favorite alternative if you use gnome.
Is it better than yaquake? I’m genuinely curious.
It’s roughly the same. I never used the tabbing features, so I can’t comment. But until wayland came along, it was always there for me, working away just fine.
What’s wrong with kitty?
I’ve been using kitty for some time didn’t had any issues, and multiplexing is useful.
PS: i used tmux for many years, and still use on headless
I personally don’t use Kitty because, for me, it’s much slower to open compared to Alacritty. :)
A Windows VM running Windows terminal, SSH’d back into the host, obviously.
Honestly I stick with whatever the default is and never had a problem that led me to find anything else.
what you say is completely off topic
Surprised nobody mentioned Yakuake. Just discovered it’s just for kde. Been using it for years. It hides at the top of my screen and slides down when the cursor hits the top. Full desktop when not used and can access it no matter which app I’m using.
Alacritty. Alacritty. Alacritty. And did I mention Alacritty? (I’m just counting how many I have open atm)
There is no one-size-fits-all, but for fits most, you’re looking at KDE’s Konsole or GNOME’s new Terminal (formerly Ptyxis). Everything else is going to be niche, with special use cases. What are your specific needs?
Good, updated article: https://itsfoss.com/linux-terminal-emulators/
