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I like terminology
It’s quick, gpu accelerated, can natively display images, and I’m not sure what else.
I don’t use the rest of enlightenment de but have stuck with terminology for years
What are the benefits if Gpu-accelarated terminals? From my understanding, that's a really negligible difference.
kitty terminal + zsh shell, two fast and customizable tools
9term is what I use the most. Once you get used to the Plan9 way, you kind of like it. Sometimes I use Terminator as well. Konsole is like Terminator, both are good. They are both nicer than kitty for me. I tried kitty, went back to Terminator as it has menus to edit things, not just a text file.
How is plan9 compared to BSd & Linux? I only learned about it recently.
What are the stand out pros & cons compared to Linux & BSD?
Currently: foot
Especially for the server mode and the resulting fast startup of footclient.
iterm2 is near perfect on macOS, for Linux I usually use Alacritty or Foot
QTerminal, xterm, and of course, the good ol' Linux console when I don't wanna do anything graphical.
terminator was my go to for the longest time. Nowadays, I just use default GNOME Terminal. I just need things to work and not waste time tinkering.
Kitty, cute name and logo
Call me lazy if you like, but I use GNOME terminal. Comes as standard with my distro. Does what I need. Supports fonts that aren't pixel fonts and has various look and feel tweaks accessible by GUI if I really want to get in there. I do that once after every fresh install and it's been a while since then.
Given that I loved a bit of Quake back in the day, you'd think I'd like drop down terminals like ddterm and Guake (which might not work on Wayland?), but weirdly no. I like it in a box I can move around.
I also keep the ancient xterm installed just in case and for when I get nostalgic for the old pixel fonts, but it's not exactly my go-to.
I do a ton of work on my homelab from my iPad with Blink Shell, and if I had to pick a favorite terminal, it would be Blink. I know this kinda falls outside the goal of your question, and with that in mind, after Blink, my favorite is Konsole.
Kitty