[HN Gopher] Leaving Cmder for Alacritty (2020)
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Leaving Cmder for Alacritty (2020)
Author : indigodaddy
Score : 10 points
Date : 2021-02-11 19:20 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| mikewhy wrote:
| "Loading ... took 2323ms". Over two seconds of loading for each
| terminal seems like a lot, but I'm guessing YMMV.
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| I switched to the newer Windows Terminal from the store. It's
| tolerable, much more so than ConEmu ever was.
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| Also, every day I'm thankful I don't have some counter-productive
| IT team preventing me from doing my job effectively.
| sys_64738 wrote:
| Windows Terminal is the most tmux friendly terminal for Windows,
| IMO.
| oblio wrote:
| And their roadmap looks very nice:
| https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/terminal...
| podiki wrote:
| For the Linux users, any compelling case for alacritty (or
| similar style renders)? I'm quite happy with termite, fast
| startup, handles fonts well, etc. I've use urxvt in the past too,
| that that was a little trickier with fonts and some settings.
| Can't say I've ever wanted my display to be faster, but maybe I'm
| missing a use case?
| towb wrote:
| Same, used a few different until I found termite and it did
| everything I sometimes struggled to get working on the other
| ones, with minimal config.
| indigodaddy wrote:
| A few years ago I had a nice wsl1 setup on a laptop with vcXsrv
| for X and I created a PS script/desktop shortcut that started
| vcXsrv, then spawned a wsl that called Termite. I love
| Termite.. kinda urxvt'ish but much prettier/easier
| setup/config/customization. That terminal/setup was super super
| fast and very nice
| lambdaba wrote:
| It's GPU accelerated and fast, scrolling is extremely smooth
| and it looks better. It's also Wayland-native if that matters
| to you. I use it with Sway as a tiling manager, it's perfect.
| podiki wrote:
| Smooth because of the faster drawing you mean? termite at
| least scrolls by pixels (not lines) and seems smooth enough
| to me. But maybe for something like fast compiling output? I
| did try alacritty some time ago, but didn't really notice a
| difference. Is there particular things you can see the
| difference in?
| slaymaker1907 wrote:
| I switched from Cmder to Windows Terminal after using the former
| exclusively for years. I really like that Cmder comes with Unix
| tools out of the box, but Windows Terminal is a better terminal
| IMO since it only does a few things, but it does them well. SSH,
| vim, tmux, and other complex terminal programs mostly just work.
| It's also much more straight forward to add new custom
| shells/profiles than with Cmder.
|
| One annoyance I do have with Windows Terminal is that there isn't
| a nice way to open up an admin terminal. I usually just have to
| right click it and open as admin (could also do a shortcut, but
| that's basically the same thing). Not sure if it is possible, but
| I would especially love to have admin and non-admin tabs in the
| same window.
| joshschreuder wrote:
| If you pin it to start menu, and have an Admin console setup
| via the settings it will appear in the Start menu jump list to
| open as admin. Though doing it this way you do get the flicker
| as the non admin terminal spawns the admin terminal.
|
| The admin terminal story on Terminal was a bit of a mess last
| time I looked, I think for security reasons. Has anything
| changed?
| jeppesen-io wrote:
| Don't use Alacritty, but using Kitty for a few years now I can
| attest that a nice GPU acclerated terminal is quite nice
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