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#1, whatever is default. The main advantage of the terminal is that it's just a terminal, fundamentally the same terminal since the dawn of computing.
Having said that, I do sometimes install a non-default terminal. I haven't seen any of them mentioned:
cool-retro-term It looks like an OG CRT! What other terminal emulator has this killer feature?
Byobu Technically a front end for tmux, but it gives some useful status info and multiple windows.
st
Kitty as I need X11 support & I use the kittens it comes with too. Kinda which more applications used their drawing API to get images on the screen.
No love for xfce4-terminal around here?
I use what the DE usually provides, which is Konsole in Plasma. I don't need fancy stuff as I only do basic stuff in the terminal.
Alacritty in case Konsole breaks
I primarily just use whatever the distro has(gnome terminal most often), though I use iTerm2 with omz on my work MacBook and really enjoy the customizability with tabs, panes, hotkeys, and especially triggers.
Can anyone recommend a good equivalent on Linux?
I see a lot of others listed here with many features. I'm open to trying a few to find a good alternative, though I don't want to move all my eggs to a basket only to find out it doesn't support some feature.
Foot and alacrity
xfce4-terminal - because it's easy to config, I like tabs, and it has good Unicode support.
Yakuake
konsole
Terminal is to much bloat. Use tty. /s
Contour currently, but might consider that new one by the cosmic team. Contour is a bit minimalistic like alacritty or foot, yet it ligatures (a weird dealbreaker of mine). Goes well with zellij (pretty neat stuff, if u ask me, although breaking sixel is unfortunate, but they're working on it).
Used to use kitty and weztetm, the latter was overall less confusing (generally faster, no need to use quirks for ssh). And then wezterm broke on Wayland :D
Kitty the vast majority of the time but slowly using Ghostty more and more as it improves. Sometimes use Tabby and have been looking into Wave recently. I also use the x-terminal-reloaded package in the Pulsar editor for a dock terminal if im doing something in it at the same time.
Can't live without Yakuake/Guake
Usually what ever best integrates with the DE (which is usually the default) but when that one sucks I fallback to Konsole
On GNOME, I like BlackBox, though Prompt looks promising once it's stable.
XFCE's. TERMIMAL set to linux, because something sets it to xterm, which does weird shit.
I like st and kitty depending on the task
xterm on X11 (urxvt is also good but no true color support), foot on wayland
Back when I was into tiling window managers and all that i’d use urxvt but now i just use gnome terminal. I can theme it nicely and it works well
Konsole
Tilix
Foot terminal on wayland, wezterm on MacOS
I use kitty because its the hyprland default.
Formerly I used Terminator, because I liked to split the screen. Then I moved to Kitty because having a GPU-powered terminal sound amazing, and now I'm using gnome-terminal because I'm trying to get back to simply and default.
I was an rxvt/urxvt fan for nearly 20 years, then Alacritty for a while. Nowadays, I just use gnome-terminal and I've been happy with it. Looking forward to trying Prompt though.
5 days later: Prompt is the bee's knees! Highly recommend for anyone wanting a snappy, feature-rich GTK4 terminal, especially if you work with containers.
I use Yakuake most of the time. It's a Quake-style drop down terminal thats always available. I find it to be convenient for the vast majority of the terminal stuff I do.
When I need to edit long files or something, tho, I usually use Kitty, since the quake-style terminals tend to get in the way sometimes lol. It's not really a unique thing to Kitty or anything, but I like how you can split one window into multiple terminals.
Gnome terminal, although I am on xfce. Easy to configure, has tabs and shortcuts. I am using terminal for 90 % of my work.
Same here whatever the DE has I would use.
Though most common answers from others would be alacritty or kitty which I see the use but feels advanced in configuration.