Like the question above am I just an old man that’s not keeping up with the times or is terminator still a great terminal to use in 2025?

  • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The main advantages I have felt with fancy terminals are

    • GPU accelerated means scrolling feels smoother
    • Nice single configuration file for the terminal which I can easily move around
    • Launches slightly faster. Only noticeable when you are launching multiple terminals
    • 7dev7random7@suppo.fi
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      3 days ago

      Launches faster sounds like you have a weird shell config.

      Also scrolling isn’t really existing in a terminal. If you are tail -f somefile then it depends on how fast it is written to, how fast tail is. If you have some TUI tool open it dependa how fast it can emit it’s UI.

      If your program only emits 100MB data each seconds then a terminal sink of 30GB/s wouldn’t really benefit.

      Power users like me run a terminal multiplexer anyways so there is another bottleneck.

      And the configuration is onetime only (if the terminal configuration will be downward compatible with a version 10 years from now).