I have recently jumped head first into the Linux space. I’ve installed Arch on my daily driver and I’ve become overwhelmed/overjoyed with my options. I’d like to hear from the community about your Linux favorites.

What is your favorite Terminal Emulator and what have you done to customize it?

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I’ve been using Alacritty for a while. It’s fast and does everything I need.

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Also using this one for years now, don’t see a reason to change, although I see some “foot” in conjunction with wayland quite often.

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Second, gotta love the new rust based tools and apps getting developed. Although I’ve seen some weird formatting issues on windows. Linux version is solid though.

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Alacritty is also the terminal that feels small and focused enough for me. Too many other terminals try to do everything like session management, etc.

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kitty

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+1

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I like how the +1 of OG Reddit made it to Lemmy, but without the downvote hate of current Reddit. I’ve always seen those comments as more than just an upvote. An upvote can be a “+1”, but also a “thank you for your contribution”. A +1 is only a +1.

Also +1 for kitty

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😻

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Wezterm for me, I like the multiplexer that comes with it.

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It works cross platform on every machine including windows with a single lua config and the documentation feels complete.

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I’m happy with Konsole. Don’t think I’ve customized it any. TEs by and large just get the job done.

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I looked quite a bit. Konsole is king for me.

My only complaint is the SSH profiles don’t always work as intended, but that’s just a theming thing.

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foot

I only changed the colors and the font to Fira Code.

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+1 , works great on my wayland setup

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