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?
I just use konsole. It comes with plasma and is more than good enough for me.
Yup, Konsole is good enough.
Konsole is great! Only complaint I have is its too complicated to change the text color scheme. But I’ll manage. Still beats everything else I’ve tried.
I must be older and even more out of touch than you are, as I only use the default Terminal that came with my distro and I had to do a search to check what were Ghostty and Terminator (I know about the movie, obviously, but I’m also old enough to have been watching it in theatre the year it was first released ;)
Ghostty is the new kid, Terminator has been around since 2008 it seems. I don’t use it for 6 years now.
I chose Kitty cause of the name and I have never looked at anything else.
A terminal is a terminal. If there is a feature you don’t know you need then you don’t need it. Run with whatever you have
Use whatever you like. You know your needs better than anybody else. As for me, I like Konsole and I will stick to that.
I use foot which is Wayland aware and renders Unicode fonts. Honestly I don’t need much from the terminal itself as I’m usually in tmux to deal with all the “tabs” and scrollback.
Yeah. Pretty much all of the above.
I used to rely on Sway for terminal tabs and splits. Only recently did I realize that tmux is the better option, even for local use. Already used tmux for SSH sessions.
for terminal tabs and splits. Only recently did I realize that tmux is the better option, even for local use
Reasoning?
- Muscle memory. I already did development on remote machines in nvim.
- If I start tmux in the root of a project, then every new pane or window I open automatically starts in that directory. So no need to
cdto the root for every new shell session I start.
Interesting, thanks. Had not considered that second point.
From a look at the documentation it’s just a fancy terminal. If you don’t really care about theming or image rendering then it’s not something you need. If you’re trying to rice a UI like hyprland then it looks like a good option.
Personally, I don’t see much added value over whatever the default terminal is but I’ve never been one to mess with things that do what they are supposed to.
What’s its advantages over Terminator? Does it have any?
GPU-accelerated, likely faster and less mem usage (Python vs Zig), and image rendering.
I’m no connoisseur, but I just want the same feel as I had back in the 90s. No terminal emulator, straight up tty with crisp VGA ROM fonts at some hacky SuperVGA resolution. Before the virtual framebuffer that basically every computer today uses for tty.
Konsole, gnome-terminal and ghostty can all be made to feel right to me. I’m giving ghostty a spin, and I like how it supports custom shaders so I can make it feel even more like home.
I have switched from XTerm to Konsole only a year ago.
