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For me, it was having a cool-looking and user-friendly terminal app.
How do you get a terminal app that’s cool and user-friendly? Any recommendations?
Kitty is also a good example ! Very customizable but maybe less user friendly to begin with.
Konsole and yakuake. Bear in mind that the terminal I was comparing them to was Windows' CMD.EXE, and anything is better than that.
Yakuake is a Quake-style terminal, which means that you can open and close it with an F-key, and it scroll down from the top of the screen. This is both cool-looking and convenient. I like to have some window transparency, so that I can see through the terminal window somewhat. I also like to use a nerd font like Fantasque Sans Mono.
Install some terminal apps
Examples:
https://github.com/clangen/musikcube
https://github.com/yorukot/superfile
This is the font I use
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/Meslo/M-DZ
I also use ghostty because it’s themeable, I found adding transparency helped me because i can have whatever I need to see under the terminal (helps for command cheatsheets)
These do look nice 🤩 Thanks!