I’ve always just used konsole or gnome terminal. Never really looked into what else is available. Tried cool-retro-term the other day, but the novelty wore off pretty fast for me.

Curious to see if there’s a terminal someone swears by and refuses to use anything else.

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    kitty. it’s the first thing I install on a new machine.

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      And why do you usw kitty? For me its the hyprland default terminal emulator and I never had problems with it so I stuck with it

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        I tested kitty and alacrity when I first found out about advanced term emulators. I liked kitty more, but I don’t remember why. I use the kittens all the time. It’s super convenient to play a video or display an image in the terminal. Kitty works on most distros. I wish it worked on windows, too, so I could use it at work.

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          If you’re allowed to install WSL on your work machine, they recently (I think recently) added GUI support for linux applications.

          If you install kitty on a WSL distro, you can use it like any other windows program.

          You can access your windows file system from /mnt/

          I don’t really know how they do the virtualization, so you may lose a lot of the performance benefits that kitty has.

          Very clunky workaround, but it’s an option.