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Alacritty, Konsole, or something else? Which terminal emulator do you recommend? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So, Konsole shipped by default with KDE Plasma, my current Desktop Environment. While I don't have a problem with it, I am interested in what other people are using, because there very likely is something better out there.

Specifically I've seen talk of Kitty and Alacritty, although I've also read that the dev of Kitty is allegedly kind of a jerk, so I am specifically interested in how Konsole matches up to Alacritty in your experience, but other suggestions and general terminal emulator discussion are also welcome!

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kitty but only if you don't mind configuring everything in a config file. It has GPU acceleration so it will be faster than Konsole when showing 300+ lines of output on older hardware. Alacritty had a lot of issues on my installations so can't recommend it

[–] codr9@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm just curious, when do I have to care about virtual terminal speed? When do you need that GPU acceleration?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

From my experience, you only really need it when you want to get a lot of output (try find /). In my cases it's more than 2 times faster on GPU accelerated terminal emulators. And I believe you can't display images on non-accelerated ones

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just tried "time tree ~" and "time fd .mkv /" in alacrity and konsole. Konsole was actually beating it by fractions of a second in most runs. Alacritty was only slightly faster at treeing after a few runs.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

It's always faster after a few runs. But in my case it's like 10 seconds faster. Though I have an old HDD so maybe that's the reason lol

[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Konsole can display sixel images (same as kitty I believe), though I don't know anything about it's implementation.