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.
I tried Wezterm and it’s not bad, but I had a bit of trouble configuring it and it seems a bit heavy to me. Recently, in order to use certain applications, I was forced to abandon alacritty and switch to kitty, and I must say I really like it. The tabs are not very useful to me since I use a tiling window manager and tmux, but it has a lot of interesting features and is really easy to configure. I didn’t remember it being so well done. Although alacritty seems to me to be the best due to its simplicity and minimalism. Just my humble opinion.
Konsole is awesome and has great integration with Plasma ofc. I’m surprised to see it barely mentioned.
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.
foot for me
People keep recommending terminal emulators, but I think they’re missing your point.
I’m not aware of anyone making new terminals these days. In my opinion DIGITAL is still king. They are getting a bit hard to come by. VT220 used to be the gold standard, but a VT420 or VT520 is still worth it if you can find one.
Looks like there are a few VT420s on eBay going for up to $200. Prices aren’t what they used to be.
Alacritty is fine. If you’re not combining it with tmux and zsh/fish, id pluck those fruits first.
Terminator for me. It has tiles and tabs and does everything I need.
Depends on what you need actually. I was doing fine with urxvt on Xorg, so foot is a perfect alternative for me on Wayland.
Alacritty. Alacritty. Alacritty. And did I mention Alacritty? (I’m just counting how many I have open atm)
I don’t know if it’s the best, but kitty + zsh has been my daily driver for many years.
Running Kitty the past year and a bit and really like it. Used to run into weird laggy issues with other terminal emulators, but Kitty runs like a beast for me.
It’s between konsole and kitty for me. Both are great.
Alacrity or foot (foot has less features but it’s faster)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis
Ptyxis is my current go-to. It can detect available pods or toolboxes (maybe docker too haven’t tested it) and you can open terminals directly into them. It also highlights ssh terms and root shells differently.
There are a huge number of built-in color schemes as well and I’ve had no trouble finding any configuration option I’ve found myself wanting to look for.
It’s also available on flathub so it’s easily installed in most distros.
