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I've also switched but up to now Mac Terminal is still far superior to anything I can find on Windows, including much touted 3rd party emulators like cmder/cone
by m_mueller 7y ago
I've also switched but up to now Mac Terminal is still far superior to anything I can find on Windows, including much touted 3rd party emulators like cmder/conemu. Keybindings, scrolling, tabbing, drag and drop, copy/pasting and colors just work incredibly well out of the box on Mac, even in Linux land I don't know of a terminal emulator that good. I have high hopes in this new windows terminal.
Other things that are still better on MacOS compared to Windows: Keybinding consistency, system settings, PDF handling, system/app config system, backups and restores, migration assistant, system search. Its file system is also better for many small files. But still, for me the tradeoff is worth it because I can't stand butterfly keyboards, they are that bad.
- OJFord 7y agoReally? In what regards? Everyone I've ever seen using macOS doesn't use Terminal.app - iTerm is popular, I use Alacritty. What Linux term isn't faster, if nothing else, than Terminal.app?
- m_mueller 7y agoSee, speed was never my issue - terminal is plenty fast enough as I tend to not output more than I can mentally process. What matters to me is consistency of function and ease of use. And I pointed out pretty much all the reasons why for me Terminal was best. I never tried anything else on MacOS because I didn't have any need. Another thing I didn't mention is security - MacOS comes with integrated Keychain out of the box. Even Linux servers are still annoying in that regard with ssh-agent, as it doesn't unlock Keychain with SSO. On Windows I just gave up and use password-less id files on an encrypted drive.