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I know this probably comes up a lot and is liable to spark some debate, but I'm curious what the good options are for terminals. I've skimmed some reddit/lemmy posts about it and looked at a few options and I dunno how to decide between them because they all seem like they're too narrowly focused on some particular use case. I'm just using it for general terminal stuff, nothing terribly fancy. I'm aware that there's not one terminal to rule them all or anything, so I'm curious: what do you folks use, and more importantly, why do you use that over the (many) other options available?

Personally I've just been using konsole since it's what came with kde and it seems nice and all, but I feel like I'm missing out on features I don't even know about. One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such where i'm doing the tinkering instead of constantly tabbing out to duck.ai or w/e.

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[–] 10001110101@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

GPU acceleration, true-color, image display, etc.

[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you want to accelerate? And for what you need more than 256 colors?

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're on a high-refresh display, the GPU acceleration allows for much faster updates. Makes it feel much smoother. It's of course not needed, but neither is a lot of stuff we do.

[–] kaidezee@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is a literal box with text on your screen, what do you mean by "smoother"?

[–] priapus@piefed.social 1 points 33 minutes ago

You can just go test it out yourself. Compare using a TUI in a hardware accelerated terminal to one that isnt. If you use a lot of TUIs or very dynamic CLIs it makes a very noticeable difference

[–] slackness@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago

What's up with the attitude like gpu accelerated terminals aren't extremely popular? If you're fine with what you're using, have fun and tone down the high horse.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Umm, what I said: the updates happen faster. If you have a GPU maybe you should try it?