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[–] Trent@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

A terminal that uses Electron? Hah, no...not a chance. I'll stick with wezterm.

[–] tfkhdyt@lemmy.my.id 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] aeroevan@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

My main complaint with foot is that I have to copy the terminfo everywhere, but other than that it just works I guess

[–] Esin@lemmy.film 1 points 2 years ago

No way, a TNO reference

[–] simple@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Tabby looks very good and straightforward but I'm more of a Nushell guy. Really love the user experience there.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I’ve been using Warp recently and really enjoy it.

[–] Makussu@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why would anybody use this over wezterm or alacritty?

[–] Fryboyter@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why should I use wezterm or alacritty and not Terminator?

The answer to your question and mine should be pretty much the same. Because everyone has different preferences and requirements.

[–] Makussu@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I think you misunderstood. I want to know what requirements you have, that are not met with wezterm. I understand, that some people like different software, but this is a huge github repo for a terminal written with electron. Just confuses me

[–] krash@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Tabby seems to get a lot of hate in the comments here, but I enjoy it for the following reasons:

  • it looks consistently on all platforms
  • it has a nice working sync of connection profiles (even of ssh keys...encrypted!)
  • its opensource

Yes, it is built on electron-crappie, but for someone who jumps across different workstations with multiple hosts with their own configurations, tabby is very straightforward.

Could the sync be done with other means? Sure, but I won't bother since tabby offers that OOTB and I can get up and running in 5 minutes from a fresh install.

[–] 418teapot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

it has a nice working sync of connection profiles (even of ssh keys…encrypted!)

Sorry, but what on earth does this have to do with a terminal emulator? Something like this makes way more sense as a separate tool. It's like if I was making a decision of what video player to use because it can sync my browser bookmarks.

[–] SchizoRamblings@vlemmy.net 3 points 2 years ago
  • So can qt, gtk and pretty much any gui toolkit
  • Syncthing or git annex functionally the same
  • So is every other terminal

Basically just wasting resources for no reason

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