I’ve always just used konsole or gnome terminal. Never really looked into what else is available. Tried cool-retro-term the other day, but the novelty wore off pretty fast for me.

Curious to see if there’s a terminal someone swears by and refuses to use anything else.

  • deezbutts
    102·
    9 months ago

    I’m high AF and new to Linux, what is a terminal emulator?

    • rufus
      150·
      9 months ago

      So the “terminal” is the basic CLI that you use in the single-user, text-based mode. Terminal emulators are graphical programs that run in multi-user, graphics-based mode, and they hook into the terminal and allow you to access it inside graphical sessions. Some examples would be alacritty, kitty, urxvt, konsole, or terminator

      • deezbutts
        70·
        9 months ago

        Thanks for taking the time.

        I’ve been using the literal terminal app like a caveman I guess… What do these weird apps give me over my regular terminal?

        People mentioned tabs and stuff but like… I have tabs?

        • Jordan_U
          100·
          9 months ago

          Every “terminal app” is a terminal emulator, because non-emulated terminals are physical pieces of hardware.

          So you are already using a terminal emulator, I’d guess Gnome Terminal, and it’s a fairly full featured modern terminal emulator (in my opinion at least).

      • Blue_Morpho
        50·
        9 months ago

        Thanks I actually thought this was about emulators like the Tektronics Vt 4052 terminal emulator I used to use.

        • al177
          90·
          9 months ago

          That’s exactly what they are, but instead of connecting to a VAX at the other end of a modem they talk to a shell attached to a pseudo terminal device on the same machine.

    • doggle
      50·
      9 months ago

      In overly simple terms

      It’s a terminal app on your desktop, e.g. alacritty, konsole, kitty, terminator, urxvt, etc.

      As opposed to the terminal that your computer would boot into it you didn’t have a desktop environment installed.

    • Blisterexe
      30·
      9 months ago

      Basically just a more accurate way to say terminal