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I ~am~ was interested in trying out alacritty after reading this, but they don't seem to favour making it friendly to OS package managers. They don't seem to be
by politelemon 3y ago
I ~am~ was interested in trying out alacritty after reading this, but they don't seem to favour making it friendly to OS package managers. They don't seem to be friendly to feature requests either, I see resistance to package managers and tabs. Its performance is quite good though.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agohttps://repology.org/project/alacritty/versions https://repology.org/project/alacritty/versions seems to show it in most of the major distros?
- lloeki 3y agoIt's opinionated, which comes with upsides and downsides. I won't blame the maintainer to keep things focused, feature creep (even for worthy features) can kill a FOSS project. Another example is sixel support, there's a fork where it all works but is not sufficiently "proven" (code quality just as well as sixel being the best fit for the problem) https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/4763#issuecomment-773716497 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/4763#issuecommen... It may be annoying but I get the reasoning, and there are other terminals.