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[–] christopher 1 points 5 hours ago

On my machine, neovim is visibly faster on uxterm over alacritty, another gpu-accelerated terminal emulator, so I'm not going to bother trying ghostty. Also, I don't have gtk4 on my computer now. I don't see the need to install it just for a terminal emulator. In addition to xterm, I also have xfce4-terminal (included with the Xfce desktop environment I've been using since Gnome 2 went away) for when I want font-fallback support or a drop-down terminal.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What does it do that kitty doesn't?

[–] 0xDEADBEEFCAFE 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

According to this this slideshow:

At a fundamental level, this is the state of terminal emulators today as I saw it. You have fast terminals, feature rich terminals, and native terminals. You can pick at most two properties to have.

Ghostty aims for -- and in my opinion already achieves -- all properties.

Also, calling out the warning signs, my bar for a native platform experience is that the app feels and acts like a purpose-built native app. I don't think this bar is unreasonable. For example, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that Alacritty is kind of not native because new windows create new processes. Or that Kitty is kind of not native because tabs use a non-native widget. And so on (there are many more examples for each).

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

Okay sounds like nothing other than being "more native" than Kitty, but they will add more fearures later. I'm not convinced to switch, but I'm interested what Ghostty does in the future.

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

Okay sounds like nothing other than being "more native" than Kitty, but they will add more fearures later. I'm not convinced to switch, but I'm interested what Ghostty does in the future.

[–] tyler 4 points 1 week ago

I think this youtuber is wrong about almost everything, so of course it's a good idea to expose yourself to differing opinions. I thought for sure I was going to hate Ghostty just because he likes it lol, and also it's made by the dude who started Hashicorp, whom I think writes absolute shit software, but honestly I'm downloading it right now and I'm going to try it out. Works better with tmux (than iTerm), supports native keybindings rather than breaking (iTerm really sucks at this), seemingly needs little to no config, supports ligatures, has fantastic very fast themes out of the box. I'm not sure I'll stick with it, but definitely going to try it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUxMfyzTM_Y

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I use Kitty and didn't find much in the documentation tbh.

[–] NostraDavid 5 points 1 week ago

Dang, finally! Alas, I'm off to bed, but I'll have to try it out tomorrow to see what the hype was all about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ghostty is a terminal emulator that differentiates itself by being fast, feature-rich, and native. While there are many excellent terminal emulators available, they all force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs. Ghostty provides all three.

Sounds pretty cool honestly

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

huh, neat! thanks for the answer :)

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

You're very welcome ☺️

Hope you have a lovely day my friend

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

What does it do that kitty doesn't?