So, Konsole shipped by default with KDE Plasma, my current Desktop Environment. While I don’t have a problem with it, I am interested in what other people are using, because there very likely is something better out there.
Specifically I’ve seen talk of Kitty and Alacritty, although I’ve also read that the dev of Kitty is allegedly kind of a jerk, so I am specifically interested in how Konsole matches up to Alacritty in your experience, but other suggestions and general terminal emulator discussion are also welcome!
I was a fan of Alacritty and used it for the last 3 years, but I was frustrated by the lack of features (no scroll bar, no native tabs) and the disrespectful way the developers handled feature requests.
A few weeks ago someone on this site recommended Wezterm, so I tried it out, and it’s amazing. It’s everything I was hoping Alacritty would be or could become.
Read this thread for more details, specifically the reply by wez: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/discussions/1769
You were a fan, but didn’t realise that it’s minimal on purpose?
It’s AFAIK the only popular, minimal, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It doesn’t have tabs, multiplexing, and other features because it’s not supposed to. Your wm/tmux handles that already, and scrollbars are waste of screen space.
Would you also complain that a flat head screwdriver is missing those cross bits to help you unscrew phillips heads?