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On Windows, Alacritty is actually extremely fast compared to anything else I've tried, including windows terminal, powershell and CMD, from startup time to keys
by corndoge 6y ago
On Windows, Alacritty is actually extremely fast compared to anything else I've tried, including windows terminal, powershell and CMD, from startup time to keystroke delay. Unfortunately many of the third party terminals for windows that have normal terminal features are Electron apps and are so slow they're unusable (looking at you Terminus). On Linux I don't see a difference between Alacritty and konsole, terminator, rxvt, etc.
- elcritch 6y agoI didn’t realize Alacrity supported Windows. That’s great to know! Finding useable console on Windows was always a pain for me.
- pxc 6y agoI've noticed the same thing, and on macOS, too. Non-free operating systems have a really poor selection of terminal emulator software, both in terms of feature sets and in terms of performance. They're usually inflexible (Microsoft's old terminal emulator, like for PowerShell and CMD by default) or extensible but based on web technologies, and in both cases, they're slow. iTerm2 can be made to perform passably, but only by throwing GPU acceleration at the problem, which doesn't seem to be necessary for popular and banal terminal emulator choices on Linux, like Gnome Terminal and Konsole. The performance differences become much more visible if you're a tmux user, in many cases.