Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?

1

wezterm

#SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 42 social mentions

2

Alacritty

I was a happy urxvt user for years, but switched to Alacritty[1] about a year or so ago. My main reasons for switching were wanting better emoji support (urxvt handles Unicode admirably, but not emoji) and wanting a better configuration language (I hate writing Xresource rules). I don't believe it's had a 1.0 release yet, but it's been stable in my use cases, and (perceptively) performant. [1]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty.

#Remote PC Access #Remote Control #Terminal Tools 56 social mentions

3

Kitty terminal

Kitty is an amazing terminal if you are willing to spend some time to learn and customize it. Take a look at the screencast on its website, it is super powerful and will make your coworkers and friends jealous. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/.

#SSH #Terminal Tools #Server Management 88 social mentions

4

Foot

#Development #Tool #SSH 13 social mentions

5

ST - Simple Terminal

St. [1] Its simple and has everything I need, which is utf-8 support. Tabs and stuff I do via tmux. [1] https://st.suckless.org/.

#SSH #Terminal Tools #Development 44 social mentions

6

Hyper

Surprised to see no mention of Hyper https://hyper.is/.

#Terminal Tools #Emulators #Terminal 42 social mentions