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Observed mentions: 2021-06-16 06:14:05 UTC to 2025-11-12 04:31:42 UTC.

02462021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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monkeytaco·Apr 5, 2022
I just ran a quick test using Casey Muratori's termbench (https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench) you are an order of magnitude slower than Alacritty, and also significantly slower than iTerm. Warp also locks up pretty severely and only shows a new frame once every few seconds during most of the run. Alacritty CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz VT support: no ManyLine: 1.5670s (0.0399gb/s) LongLine: 1.1261s (0.0555gb/s) FGPerChar: 0.3293s (0.0551gb/s) FGBGPerChar: 0.6598s (0.0534gb/s) TermMarkV2 Small: 3.6822s (0.0484gb/s) iTerm CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz VT support: no ManyLine: 13.2968s (0.0047gb/s) LongLine: 3.6535s (0.0171gb/s) FGPerChar: 1.8944s (0.0096gb/s) FGBGPerChar: 2.8304s (0.0125gb/s) TermMarkV2 Small: 21.6750s (0.0082gb/s) Warp CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz VT support: no ManyLine
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: 9.6199s (0.0065gb/s) LongLine: 8.3727s (0.0075gb/s) FGPerChar: 8.1124s (0.0022gb/s) FGBGPerChar: 6.0873s (0.0058gb/s) TermMarkV2 Small: 32.1924s (0.0055gb/s)
In Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
AnIdiotOnTheNet·Aug 31, 2021
> Am I the only one who really enjoys Windows 11 so far? Probably not, but consider that people have a lot of different use cases for their computer and a lot of different priorities and Microsoft has been pretty consistent lately about ignoring pretty much any of them that aren't "I really wish my desktop were a clunky tablet". > I really like the new UI which feels more modern and harmonic Subjective, but feeling more modern is precisely the opposite of what I want in a UI. Modern means slow and cumbersome with lots of wasted space, sparse options, and unreadable widgets. > Control Panel is still in there somewhere but why should I care? Control Panel had nothing wrong with it and probably still has settings options that are missing from the new ones? > new GPU accelerated Terminal is really nice It's performance is remarkably terrible
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for something that's GPU accelerated. Casey Muratori has said a lot about it. https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench and https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm were a result. It doesn't mean a lot in terms of quality of Windows 11, I just think it is a good illustration of modern Windows team's development practices. > Does it have tons of telemetry, cruft from 20 years in the kernel and some rough edges? Cruft is fine because it is there for backwards compat, which is huge for a tone of desktop use cases. Linux Kernel has a ton of cruft too for the same reason. Telemetry is bullshit and wastes my computer's resources to effectively spy on me. > Is the hardware requirements a bit ridiculous? The hardware requirements are very ridiculous. Windows 11 is not revolutionary, but somehow manages to require twice the minimum specs of ten in some metrics, and a TPM module. > To each their own I guess but it sometimes feels a bit depressing how HN crowd trashes every OS. They all have problems, big problems, so they all deserve it. I find it more remarkable that people consistently try to say that everything is actually ok! > Is everyone here still using C64, Windows 2000 or OS9 because it „was the last good system“? God I wish they were still viable.
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