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Alacritty, foot, wezterm, kitty form this block of "nextgen" terminal emulators. I do find them difficult to differentiate. I personally use foot as my daily dr

by zokier 2y ago

Alacritty, foot, wezterm, kitty form this block of "nextgen" terminal emulators. I do find them difficult to differentiate. I personally use foot as my daily driver, but that is just because alacritty happened to have some issues with nvidia drivers (bleh). But I chalk that up to nvidia, not alacritty.

eviks 2y ago
wezterm is the most flexible with its lua config, big differentiator Then being x-platform is also an easy differentiator of the 2
- imbnwa 2y ago
  Can't live without Lua config
d0mine 2y ago
I haven't stumbled upon any issues with alacritty + nvidia (lucky, perhaps). Though, mostly, I use vterm in emacs (unmatched customization & integration)
ploum 2y ago
Ass I use Offpunk to surf the web and Chafa to display picture, my main concern is displaying images using the sixel protocol (or, in the case of kitty, its own protocol). Last time I tried, Alacritty didn’t support sixel (while even xterm supports it)
padthai 2y ago
Foot is Linux only and lightweight, take it as a Wayland version of Xterm with good defaults and almost no emulation options. The rest works in all major OS. Alacrity is all about GPU rendering speed at the cost of everything else (at some point it did not have scrollbars/history). Kitty and Wezterm are packed with features and more difficult to differentiate. They are all good though.
- reyqn 2y ago
  Not sure if you don't consider Windows a major OS, but Kitty doesn't work there.
  - padthai 2y ago
    I actually use it in Windows (WSL2) but good point it does not work natively (so no Powershell/CMD).
- Sammi 2y ago
  There still are no scrollbars in Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/775 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/775 Use Wezterm is you want a modern rust based terminal with basic nice stuff like scrollbars.
  - alwillis 2y ago
    +1 for WezTerm. Excellent documentation, fast and pretty much all the bells and whistles you could want in a modern terminal.
  - desipenguin 2y ago
    Another +1 for Wezterm. I also tried Alacritty in past, but felt it too basic. Kitty was better. TBH, not sure why I left that for Wezterm. But for now, I've settled and have no intention to change. FWIW I use Wezterm with Zellij
- keefle 2y ago
  Surprisingly in some tests [1], foot was rendering faster than alacritty for me (Wayland, Nvidia GPU) https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomment-272479755 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomme...

by zokier 2y ago

eviks 2y ago

wezterm is the most flexible with its lua config, big differentiator Then being x-platform is also an easy differentiator of the 2

imbnwa 2y ago
Can't live without Lua config

d0mine 2y ago

I haven't stumbled upon any issues with alacritty + nvidia (lucky, perhaps). Though, mostly, I use vterm in emacs (unmatched customization & integration)

ploum 2y ago

Ass I use Offpunk to surf the web and Chafa to display picture, my main concern is displaying images using the sixel protocol (or, in the case of kitty, its own protocol). Last time I tried, Alacritty didn’t support sixel (while even xterm supports it)

padthai 2y ago

Foot is Linux only and lightweight, take it as a Wayland version of Xterm with good defaults and almost no emulation options. The rest works in all major OS. Alacrity is all about GPU rendering speed at the cost of everything else (at some point it did not have scrollbars/history). Kitty and Wezterm are packed with features and more difficult to differentiate. They are all good though.

reyqn 2y ago
Not sure if you don't consider Windows a major OS, but Kitty doesn't work there.
- padthai 2y ago
  I actually use it in Windows (WSL2) but good point it does not work natively (so no Powershell/CMD).
Sammi 2y ago
There still are no scrollbars in Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/775 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/775 Use Wezterm is you want a modern rust based terminal with basic nice stuff like scrollbars.
- alwillis 2y ago
  +1 for WezTerm. Excellent documentation, fast and pretty much all the bells and whistles you could want in a modern terminal.
- desipenguin 2y ago
  Another +1 for Wezterm. I also tried Alacritty in past, but felt it too basic. Kitty was better. TBH, not sure why I left that for Wezterm. But for now, I've settled and have no intention to change. FWIW I use Wezterm with Zellij
keefle 2y ago
Surprisingly in some tests [1], foot was rendering faster than alacritty for me (Wayland, Nvidia GPU) https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomment-272479755 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomme...