For a basic example of why you would want GPU acceleration, have a look at refterm: https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm E

For a basic example of why you would want GPU acceleration, have a look at refterm: https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm Even processes that you wouldn't think would be impacted by a terminal can be hurt relaly bad by your terminal's performance: your compiler's logs, etc. The GPU rendering part merely guarantees that your terminal sticks at 60FPS (or, whatever your refresh rate is) if the processing behind is efficient.