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Honest question: as somebody using the terminal mostly for things like ssh, screen and emacs in screen… why should i care about terminal speed?
by znpy 3y ago
Honest question: as somebody using the terminal mostly for things like ssh, screen and emacs in screen… why should i care about terminal speed?
- stonogo 3y agoSetting aside the fact that it's no fun waiting around when you accidentally cat a gigabyte log file to stdout, a more efficient terminal has two main advantages: it runs better on low-end hardware, and it uses less power to do the same job. If you have a fast computer and don't care about battery life, there's no real reason to switch.
- GuB-42 3y agoA faster terminal feels better. It is the kind of things that are hard to point out but enough to feel the difference side by side. I definitely noticed it when I switched from terminator to kitty. Now the race of which one will cat a large file the fastest is a bit pointless, but it should be fast enough not to add more than a frame of latency for regular use.
- gjvc 3y agothese sort of questions are best answered by trying first-hand, not pondering.