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Their terminal will now be functional offline, as terminals should be...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m a non dev and non IT worker but found myself using warp the last year on mac and linux kde for home things and work. I really like it particularly its history per tab and various intuitive usability things like click and drag to select text , copy pasteetc. The login requirement did creep me out, as well as the AI things I’m not using. I don’t trust businesses going in these directions. Anyone recommended another terminal cross platform (not that important i guess) and good for a non uber techie like me?

Edit: apologies I hadn't seen the earlier comment thread but perhaps my requirement mentions will produce some interesting replies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Kitty might meet your needs well, I’ve been quite happy with it

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I’m old, and curmudgeon, so I say this with much disdain: there are few things that need ”updating” or “multiplayer”, and the terminal is not one of them.

Edit: forgot a word

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Warp is a great terminal imho with new features being added that make life in the terminal easier.

Login can go though. But there might be someone who loves the multiplayer feature.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I tried it out for a little while and it was pretty good at remembering passwords that I had typed and printing them in plaintext later for unknown reasons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

😅 sounds like a great feature.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It didn’t start out with the AI feature, now if I don’t remember a command fully I can just type “# thing I want to do” and it will give you an a template where you can fill in the right variables for your case.

It’s not flawless but pretty good and saves me “man-ing” and searching.

[–] expr 6 points 17 hours ago

JFC I will definitely stay the fuck away from whatever garbage this is.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sometimes I want to learn, sometimes I just need to get something done. Why not be able to do both?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Because then you’ll never learn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Premature optimization is a waste of time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

So much wrong with that idea.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Sometimes I want to learn, sometimes I just need to get something done. Why not be able to do both?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Lol, whatever 😂

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Frees them up to learn important things.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe they would be better off on windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

It's worth nothing unless you manually write your commands in machine language!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough. But once that internet cuts out, you’re dumb again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

I'm sure a grasp of how it works on high level has some value.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Kind of in the same boat, but I can see this being useful for distributed Ops teams, or possibly in support.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

Warp is just creepy as shit. Even if they're pulling back on requiring an account to use a terminal I can't see myself giving it another try.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I guess the little options of a pull down terminal by hotkey and a specific colorizing transparency are the only GUI things I look to from Yakuake and Konsole, but so many things can be accomplished internally. I love learning to think on the command line and creating things. I feel blessed and ingenious to just take care of things like a lot of servers or databases when needed where there isn't a tool around to solve an issue using terminal utilities all building a secure and helpful solution. I can just create my own customizations and setup or borrow from others', including AI connections, in BASH and ZSH. It's been years between needing a new tool or change, and the last one was only converting from BASH to ZSH because of people's good work in customizations I liked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Slightly offtopic, but I'm looking for a new terminal, can I have some recommendations? I feel like Warp is not going to be on the list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Termius is phenomenal if remote SSH is your goal. The portability between desktop and phones is flawless, and it’s truly one of the only subscription services I gladly pay for. They come out with nice regular updates too.

If all you need is a slick terminal to use locally though, kitty is great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Easily Ptyxis if you work with containers or immutable distros. Makes managing containers a breeze, has tabs for each container in which you can work as normal and is full of visual clues so you won't be able to mess anything up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Also the new default terminal on fedora workstation!

[–] Hexarei 2 points 13 hours ago

I'm a fan of Alacritty, it's written in rust and uses GPU rendering to be one of the fastest terminals on the planet. Sounds odd but genuinely makes a difference

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Seconded.
Wezterm is one of the best, most customisable terminals I've used.

It's super fast, and there's a lot you can do with it.

The multiplexing still has some rough edges, but it's getting closer and closer to replacing tmux for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Konsole is great on kde

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kitty term is quite good Or if you want something that just damn works, xfce4-terminal is one I can't get myself to replace

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah kitty is really good. I did mostly choose it for the name, but it might be the best terminal emulator out there. It's fast, with a lot of great modern features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

It depends on what you need on a terminal. If I just wanted a terminal, I'd go with Foot, but Konsole (on KDE Plasma) might be a good all-around solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

iTerm2 works well enough