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Linux Terminal Emulators Have The Potential Of Being Much Faster (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I used a number of terminals in the last decade and even 2 GPU accelerated ones, Kitty and Alacritty for about 2 years or so. Now I'm back on Konsole. I never saw a difference in their speed, because the terminal speed doesn't matter. Maybe there are edge cases, that's not something I discount. But for writing code or editing text files, or listing files with the shell, I never saw a difference or advancement for having a faster terminal.

However, where they differ greatly is in their customization, feature set and what dependencies they have.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I found my terminal speed to not matter when most of what I do with it is over SSH administrating various boxes.

    Probably matters more for riced up vim users and TUI fans since you need a lot of responsiveness.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am a Vim user and TUI fan. It does not make any difference in my experience to use a fast GPU based terminal. Maybe something like st might startup faster, but that's it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah. I've had issues on OS X in the past, since its Terminal is anything but optimized. I have occasionally had issues with extremely verbose programs where the lion's share of execution time was actually spent displaying output in the terminal. Piping output to a file instead made execution lightning fast. This surprised me at the time because I figured it would be buffered and each process would run on its own CPU core.

    Not sure I've ever had this problem on Linux though.

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