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After using iTerm2 as my daily driver for like a decade, and then trying out some of these other "fast" terminal emulators, I was amazed at how slow the experie
by hoherd 3y ago
After using iTerm2 as my daily driver for like a decade, and then trying out some of these other "fast" terminal emulators, I was amazed at how slow the experience in iTerm2 is. I even kept alacritty around as a second terminal for a while for cases when not having iTerm2 features wasn't a deal breaker, but eventually I just went back to iTerm2. I am still aware of how slow it is, and although I tolerate it, I wish it were as fast as some of the others.
You can see the speed difference with your eyes by joining a tmux session from different terminal emulators and doing operations that redraw the whole terminal, such as searching in a less pipe.
- anta40 3y agoThese days, I mostly use WezTerm on MacOS. And ocassionaly iTerm2. iTerm2 is slow? Man I guess I'm not a heavy command line user. I mosty open 5 or 6 tabs. tmux? Very very rarely.
- Macha 3y agoThe slowness is noticeable often enough in simple typing latency, but there's definitely a spectrum as to how much people notice or find it frustrating. On the one end there's the people that won't use anything but xterm, while on the other there's people who don't care about the seconds of latency for some remote development setups.
- kergonath 3y ago> eventually I just went back to iTerm2. I am still aware of how slow it is, and although I tolerate it, I wish it were as fast as some of the others Indeed. It still has the best feature set of all the terminal emulators I tried, though, and I wish it worked on Linux.
- vlovich123 3y agoI find Konsole very featureful and fast…
- greymalik 3y agoI see…