All this complaining about the latency and slowness of terminal applications seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon. Strangely enough I have yet to experien

All this complaining about the latency and slowness of terminal applications seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon. Strangely enough I have yet to experience this slowness, even though the newest piece of 'user-facing' hardware I use is a 2004 ThinkPad T42p - not exactly a speed demon by modern standards. Both the bare console as well as the multitude of terminal windows are more than fast and responsive enough, had I not read about them supposedly being sluggish I'd never have given it any thought. They still do not feel sluggish to me so I wonder why others seem to experience them as being so. My systems nearly all run some form of Linux with Xmonad and some parts of Mate, mate-terminal (i.e. Yet Another libvte terminal application) amongst them. I regularly have about 30 terminal windows active spread over three workspaces which I switch between without problems or lag. While terminal applications might not be much faster than they were in '92 when I first started using Linux and in that sense have gotten heavier and 'slower' they do seem to perform well enough for me to use them without qualms.