I’ve been using Linux in an academic setting for years, but only recently migrated fully to using it as my only operating system at home.

I use the terminal quite often, not as much as some users, but often enough that having to open Konsole all the time and manage it’s windows was a minor small annoyance.

But a floating terminal is such a simple solution and it’s so fun. Pictured here is Yakuake. Press F12 the little window shows up ready to use, no matter where I am, press F12 and it collapses again. I can leave a package compiling, updates running, I can use it with htop or whatever I need. F12, BOOP, terminal.

It’s like a fidget toy.

I’m sure this will not amuse most users, but it’s really fun.

    • palordrolap
      2•3 days ago

      Pretty sure it’s a Debian family key-binding, so Ubuntu and LMDE also have it. And yeah, I use it all the time.

      I love(d) the drop-down console in Quake-like games but have always preferred my command windows to be floating boxes for whatever reason.

    • @kalkulatEnglish
      3•3 days ago

      Yakuake isn’t part of the LM (Ubuntu) repository, but is available via Software Manager. (Reminds me of my long ago KDE install where I used ‘Quake’.) For some reason the launch took a lot of cycles, but it works ok.

      (ArchWiki info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Yakuake#Usage)