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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Alacritty, no particular reason. It's fast and I already made it look how I want so there is no reason to switch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Using alacritty for years on all linux devices, it does what its supposed to do. Recent change to toml configuration was a bit of hassle. But with the latest release the migration is no problem anymore.

[–] timbuck2themoon 2 points 10 months ago

Honestly didn't even know they migrated to toml. I upgraded and it said yaml wasnt supported anymore. I used alacritty migrate and only had to remove a couple deprecated options and it was fine.

It's why I keep it. It's set and just seems to work well.