Kitty, hands down. GPU accelerated; native image protocol implemented by ranger, neofetch, and more; incredibly customizable; multiplexing with multiple windows and tabs; ligature support; and much more

If anybody has any questions about it, swing on over to Kitty Terminal Emulator [!kittyterimal@midwest.social]

I like Konsole.

It comes with KDE, supports tabs, themes, and loads very fast.

I don't really need more from a terminal than that. When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij (previously I used tmux).

Konsole is pretty good

terminal? i think you'll find its a terminal emulator, haha! /s

i like kitty, its fast, simple, and supports ligatures.

Konsole. It meets all my needs.

My favorite is Alacritty but I don't use it because of stability issues lol. Kitty is popular now. It seems to have some questionable update policy but it's fixable. It supports plugins (kittens), tabs and most of the common features. Though the configuration is done in a text file. It doesn't have a GUI for it. For that I'd recommend Konsole

Wezterm is my favourite because it's really configurable and supports ligatures. Konsole is also quite nice. Generally I'm in favour of using whichever one comes with your DE, or Wezterm if you use a WM.

Kitty is probably the most popular one, but I don't like it cause ~~no ligature support~~ ~~no acceleration~~ it claims it has good font management, but fonts never worked properly in my experience.

Alacritty and Foot are also popular for their performance. Alacritty does have some stability issues though.

Konsole. Never had the need to explore alternatives.

I use foot because it's wayland native and the developer is a very nice person. Only thing missing from it for me is ligature support.

A close second for me is WezTerm. It is very full featured, although I do not use a lot of its features. Developer is also extremely nice and helpful. It does have ligature support.

I personally use tiling window managers, so I have no need for built-in tiling / tabbing features.

I like kitty because:

• multiplexing
• more minimal than DE terminals
• fast
• can display images natively

I use blackbox, looks nice and can customize shortcuts. https://itsfoss.com/blackbox-terminal/

ST - Simple terminal https://st.suckless.org/

Because I agree with suckless philosophy.

This one.

Ptyxis, formerly Prompt. I used urxvt for many years but eventually settled on GNOME Terminal after transitioning to the GNOME environment for most of my devices. Ptyxis is a slick and quick container-centric GTK 4 terminal that fits well with my Fedora Silverblue container-based workflow.

Whatever starts with Ctrl+Alt+T 😁

Well I'll throw in my endorsement for kitty. I like the ligature support, the fact that it can be configured to hide all UI, and it uses text files for configuration that I can put in my dot files repo.

There are some particular features that I use constantly:

I can yank a file path to the prompt from previous output by pressing ctrl+shift+p then f then a 1-character label. I can do the same with a git hash (or other hash) by pressing h instead of f.

I can scroll back and search previous output using only the keyboard with ctrl+shift+h which puts the terminal history in a pager.

I can get the output of only the previous command in a pager with ctrl+shift+g. Or jump to previous prompts with ctrl+shift+x and ctrl+shift+z.

I use kitty-scrollback.nvim which replaces that pager with neovim so I can use all of my editor features to search history, copy what I want, etc.

ADM-3A for beauty and the vim keys.

TRS-80 DT-1 for weirdness.

IBM 5251 for beam spring keys.

DEC VT320 because library nostalgia.

My favourite is foot. Minimal, fast, easy to configure. Wayland-only though

Kitty, it's fast and for the most part works out of the box

Alacritty, launching tmux with fish shell. The latter shell could easily have been zsh. But a good and fast terminal w/tmux is such a nice thing to have.

Any time to wish you had bothered with tmux, is when it's already too late. If you go for this, you'll never look back.

st

Alacritty because it's a minimal black rectangle, perfect for using with a tiling WM

foot

Heathrow terminal E. Whops wrong community

Kitty, because I like cats and GPU go brrrr

I like just good old gnome terminal. Theming scripts work well with it, like the gruvbox one that has like a hundred color themes. it's got all the right features. just works

Urxvt, it supports unicode

XFCE-Terminal. Small, lightweight, Wayland if you use it and plenty of config without cryptic dotfiles.

Plus popularity due to it being the XFCE default and contributed towards by the XFCE team.

konsole with tmux

VT2. Sometimes 3.

Xterm

I really like kitty. It is fast and simple but gives me all the features I would want.

Wezterm, because it lets me easily disable all keymaps and then reenable only those few that I use. I use tmux to handle most things, and with wezterm I don't have to worry about tmux clashing with wezterm's krymaps.

I've used Alacritty for a long time, but I am looking to switch since they moved to TOML for their config file. The migration they advertised did not work, and looking for some sample files took me to a GitHub issue thread where the devs are just... dicks. It was rather easy to write a new config file from scratch, but their attitude is just ridiculous.