Linux

Once upon a time, I loved Xfce Terminal. It use light and complete for the use-case I had. Then I wanted something that looked nicer with vin. So I started looking for an alternative.

I used alacrity for a long time (4 years). Then, I found kitty provided some nice stuffs that simplified the workflow for remote servers thanks to special ssh commands and session tabs. I used kitty for about 2-3 years. One thing I missed was that it's hard to integrate with other software because it implementa all it's crazy "kitty protocols" and pretend to use them even if they're compleynon-standard.

Recently, some misterious bug appeared and made it impossible to use. I switched to wezterm. I liked it could be configured in Lua, so it feels more coherent with my neovim configs. I just missed the mappings for switching terminal and send "!!" (i.e. execute last command). The special commands for copying custom configs on any ssh server was also missing, but it's easy to make a script for that. I haven't experienced too much with integrating it with other tools, but I suspect it's not better than kitty in this.

I gave a chance to konsole last week. I just asked myself why we (neovim users) all look for Gpu-accelarated stuffs. The improvement in performance is negligible actually. However, konsole is super-well integrated in the OS, with a scratch terminal (yakuake), file managers (dolphin, konqueror), text editors (Kate), and even simple browsers (konqueror). It provides all the features of wezterm. I still lack a key map for sending "!!" to a specific terminal, though. But I think the integration it offers is superior to that niche feature (that can be paired within neovim, btw).

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I like Terminator for its mouse-controlled multiplexing. I also like the fact that it's made with Python, although I haven't utilized this fact in practice.

Konsole and zsh

Ptyxis because it's fast, modern, user-friendly and follows modern GNOME UI, and as a second alacritty

alacritty

Tilda, because I can bring it down my screen with one key any time.

I'm on the Alacritty/Tmux/ZSH train. Haven't any issues, other than font scaling differences between laptop and desktop UW monitor.

Yakuake

I like Tilix, since it lets me split the terminal with a keyboard shortcut and easily switch between terminals too. I tried using GNOME terminal + tmux, but having to hit Ctrl+b before the command I wanted got tedious fast.

Why? I'm using xterm since 1990, they all are the same more or less

Favorite terminal? iTerm2 on mac, hands-down. Wish they would port it to Linux.

On Linux though, I usually end up using guake, as I like having easy drop-down global access to my terminal.

I use ddterm. It's a gnome extension that adds a Drop Down Terminal. I quite like how easy it is to bring it up and hide it again, at the press of a button. You can even hide it without closing it, so it's great for testing web apps.

None, they all have pros & cons.
The most popular in the Linux space is probably Alacritty & Kitty.

vt100

I don't know if it's Plasma dependent, but I love using yakuake on my laptop for the convenience of pressing F4 and it just popping up. I know there are shortcuts for making a terminal pop up, but I really like how yakuake closes itself when you click out of it.

Couldn't tell you about the technical side of yakuake, but I will say I just love the convenience more than anything else.

9term is what I use the most. Once you get used to the Plan9 way, you kind of like it. Sometimes I use Terminator as well. Konsole is like Terminator, both are good. They are both nicer than kitty for me. I tried kitty, went back to Terminator as it has menus to edit things, not just a text file.

Usually whatever fits in best with the DE I'm using. I'm on Pop!, so that's Gnome Terminal currently. I'm excited to see when System76's Pop!_OS's COSMIC Desktop will bring with an alacritty-based terminal emulator.

Mine is yakuake simply because it's a drop down one so it integrates well into my desktop.

I like Terminator,
for it's ability to split one terminal window into as much as you want:
https://gnome-terminator.org/

In combination with Fish shell,
for it's auto completion + syntax highlighting:
https://fishshell.com/

And lastly, BobTheFish,
a nice git-aware powerline theme to go along with it:
https://github.com/oh-my-fish/theme-bobthefish

What's my favourite terminal? The one that fits my desktop environment. When I used XFCE I used its terminal, when I used i3 I used kitty, and now I use blackbox on Gnome.

I use kitty, specifically because of the icat kitten (that draws images on the terminal) and its integration with the lf file manager's preview.

Terminator and zsh shell with oh my zsh

https://medium.com/@ferhatsukrurende/terminator-zsh-ohmyzsh-58ba4303bd09

Kitty and Konsole

Wezterm. Featureful like kitty but supports bitmap fonts.

Wezterm. I started out on konsole, and was happy with it, but then I started using zellij as my terminal multiplexer. Although zellij allows you to configure what command copies and pastes text, copy/paste on wayland and windows only works by default with wezterm. It gives me consistency across multiple DEs/OSes, with minimal configuration, which is good because I was setting up development environments for many people, with many configurations

Foot is the fastest and I use it as default. Second is Kitty because it uses GPU acceleration.

Is tmux not cool anymore, haven't seen anyone say anything about it?

Call me lazy, but I like terminal 1. Usually shortest distance from the station building.

I've tried a lot of them over the whole history of Linux, but what I use now is kitty.

Illness

mintty (windows)

xterm (linux)

termux (android)

Currently: foot

Especially for the server mode and the resulting fast startup of footclient.

kitty terminal + zsh shell, two fast and customizable tools