GUguessmyname·May 24, 2019
I use iTerm (unfortunately only available for macOS) [1]
There’s a theme that makes it look compact (nicer?) [2]
iTerm is native, supports plugins (Python scripting API), is CPU/RAM friendly, with milliseconds input (very important for touch typing), it’s open source (GPL v2) [3][4], the author is a proficient programmer which I hope to sponsor via GitHub Sponsors program soon [5] although you can already sponsor him via Patreon [6], offers smooth split panes, hotkey, buffer search, intelligent autocomplete, instant replay, an exaggerated amount of extra options available from the application settings, additional shell integrations, inline images, password manager, annotations, and the list of features continues with the beta builds.
Having spent several years using Linux (xterm [7], gnome-terminal [8], guake [9], terminator [10], among o
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thers), then moving on to macOS (Terminal.app [11] then iTerm.app), and with the recent news in the Windows world [12], I don’t see any reasons why would anyone install a terminal emulator built on top of a web browser, when there’s a good list of alternatives using native libraries and UI, with much more performance, and better features.
But as people say, to each their own.
[1] https://www.iterm2.com/features.html
[2] https://i.imgur.com/46mY0O6.png
[3] https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2
[4] https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2
[5] https://github.com/gnachman
[6] https://www.patreon.com/gnachman
[7] https://invisible-island.net/xterm/
[8] https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-terminal
[9] http://guake-project.org/
[10] https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gettingstar...
[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28macOS%29
[12] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal