The Terminal Question
I know this probably comes up a lot and is liable to spark some debate, but I'm curious what the good options are for terminals. I've skimmed some reddit/lemmy posts about it and looked at a few options and I dunno how to decide between them because they all seem like they're too narrowly focused on some particular use case. I'm just using it for general terminal stuff, nothing terribly fancy. I'm aware that there's not one terminal to rule them all or anything, so I'm curious: what do you folks use, and more importantly, why do you use that over the (many) other options available?
Personally I've just been using konsole since it's what came with kde and it seems nice and all, but I feel like I'm missing out on features I don't even know about. One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such where i'm doing the tinkering instead of constantly tabbing out to duck.ai or w/e.
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'Laughable': Aussie artist says scammers flooding Spotify with AI fakes
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Al Newstead (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
'Laughable': Aussie artist says scammers flooding Spotify with AI fakes
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Al Newstead (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Winter Dawn
Photographer @balsoft@lemmy.ml
I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly 😀This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.
The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.
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OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
[OC] Winter Dawn
I liked posting pictures here so I think I will try to do it weekly 😀
This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.
The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.
Relation: ფარავანის ტბა (12743327)
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
Israeli tank fire kills 51 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/31829941
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
June 17, 2025 6:46 AM EDTSummary
* Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating
* Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd
* Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks
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Israeli-American funded and ran 'aid' organisation which lures Palestinians from north to south Gaza if they want to get food GHF exists to ethnically cleanse the north of Gaza because other aid organisations distributed accross all of Gaza.
GHF also has Israeli soldiers on tank machinegun position, spraying bullets into the crowd at food collection because they think that is funny.
Israeli tank fire kills 51 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/31829941
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
June 17, 2025 6:46 AM EDTSummary
* Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating
* Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd
* Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks
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Israeli tank fire kills 51 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
June 17, 2025 6:46 AM EDT
Summary
* Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating
* Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd
* Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks
This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data
This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data – The Markup
The Markup and CalMatters found multiple ways consumers can block the trackers quietly sending your data to tech companies, including those used on state-run health exchange websites.themarkup.org
This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data
This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data – The Markup
The Markup and CalMatters found multiple ways consumers can block the trackers quietly sending your data to tech companies, including those used on state-run health exchange websites.themarkup.org
Jeffrey Sachs: US Prepares to Join War Against Iran
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i wonder how frustrating it must by for sachs to be so knowlege about the inner workings of the united states and its adversaries and watch and they take painfully obvious steps into mutual annihilation, but be so widely disregarded by americans and the rest of the western world.
if there ever was a living representation of cassandra, it's him.
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Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”
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Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site, witnesses and rescuers say
Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site, witnesses and rescuers say
It is potentially the deadliest of the almost daily shootings that have been taking place recently near aid distribution sites.Sebastian Usher (BBC News)
A receipt printer cured my procrastination [ADHD]
A receipt printer cured my procrastination [ADHD]
Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate on simple tasks? I finally cracked the code using thermal receipt printer and game design.www.laurieherault.com
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Gli Assassini: chi erano e perché il loro nome è tutt'ora utilizzato
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Gli Assassini facevano parte della corrente dei nizariti ismailiti, un gruppo eretico di musulmani sciiti molto potente in Persia e in Siria dall'XI secolo fino alla loro sconfitta per mano dei Mongoli...Mark Cartwright (https://www.worldhistory.org#organization)
ASCII Diagram, offline, Linux, FLOSS
Hi,
I'm looking for a soft to create ASCII diagram like (or better)
asciiflow.com/
ideally:
- FLOSS
- for linux
- offline
- no javascript.
I've found a candidate ascii-draw and it's write in Python ❤️ 🐍, but it's only available as flatpack.. :/
GitHub - Nokse22/ascii-draw: Sketch anything using characters
Sketch anything using characters. Contribute to Nokse22/ascii-draw development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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I'm not sure why you wouldn't want the ASCII-Draw flatpak, but that's not the only way to get it:
- there's a Snap
- it can be installed from source
- there's also an AUR package
But maybe you're not on Arch, don't like Snaps (can't blame anyone for that) and don't want to install from source (same)? What type of package are you looking for? Only native package? For which distro?
Ideally running the .py python foobar.py
will be ideal, otherwise an .appimage
I think I will have to build it my self (the .appimage ) 😀
Roma, Fratelli d'Italia scende in piazza a sostegno delle discriminazioni
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Il signor Giorgia Meloni è donna, ma si fa chiamare al maschile per piacere ai misogini.Gayburg
Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”
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Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”
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Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”
Annecy AI Protest: Animation Orgs In "Historic" Action Over GenAI
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Salvini annunciò di aver garantito il futuro del Gp di Imola sino al 2032. Venti gironi dopo il circuito è stato escluso dal mondiale
Salvini annunciò di aver garantito il futuro del Gp di Imola sino al 2032. Venti gironi dopo il circuito è stato escluso dal mondiale
Il 22 maggio il ministro annunciò che lui aveva mantenuto la sua promessa e che fosse “garantito il futuro della Formula 1 a Imola fino al 2032”.Gayburg
Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”
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Al liceo Malpighi di Roma, studenti festeggiano la fine dell’anno con saluti fascisti
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I New York Mets hanno celebrato il mese del Pride
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L'ultima di Pillon: «Lo stupro è colpa dell'omosessualizzazione forzata della società »
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Secondo il leghista Simone Pillon, lo stupro sarebbe colpa dei gay e dell'assenza di leggi omofobe in stile russo.Gayburg
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I leghisti sasso e Sardone se ne escono con surreali accuse di "derive islamiste" a scuola
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L'indecenza di Pillon che usa il Pride di Israele per giustificare le bombe sull'Iran
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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
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How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.substack.com
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Czele
in reply to Libra00 • • •On the other note I think You might be more interested in different shell rather than terminal. So fir example zsh or fish (You are most likely currently using bash)
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nfms
in reply to Czele • • •I'm using alacritty because it stuck and the updates are minuscule, but I've recently moved to fish and have it on desktop and server.
dino
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in reply to dino • • •Ramin Honary
in reply to Libra00 • • •I use Xfce and Cinnamon, but I always install Gnome Terminal regardless (you don't need all of Gnome desktop to use it). The main reason I like Gnome Terminal is that it is very simple, and it lets you save your own terminal themes and switch between them from a context menu. Xfce terminal is nice and simple, but doesn't have this really handy theme switching feature.
That said, the terminal emulator I used most often is the Emacs built-in terminal emulator (
term-mode
), because it integrates flawlessly with other Emacs tools. But its rendering and theming isn't as nice as Gnome terminal, so I only recommend it if you are an Emacs user.KRAW
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in reply to Libra00 • • •flatbield
in reply to bizdelnick • • •That was my reaction. Since I use Cinnamon and Gnome I use gnome-terminal.
The features I like are cut/paste and the open in terminal feature in the file manger. Nice that it looks good in your DE too. What else does one need?
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in reply to bizdelnick • • •priapus
in reply to bizdelnick • • •Multiplexing, remote multiplexing, shell integration, SSH integration, image rendering, ligatures, image rendering (mainly for TUI file managers like Yazi), support for font styling, scrollback searching, persistent sessions.
Many of these might not matter to you, but I use a lot of these features very frequently, especially remote multiplexing which only Kitty and Wezterm do AFAIK.
I also paricularly like Westerns feature where you can press a keybind and itll show two character flags over all the links and paths currently being displayed, and you type the flag to copy it. Let's me avoid switching my hand over to my mouse.
bizdelnick
in reply to priapus • • •priapus
in reply to bizdelnick • • •Says who? You aren't the arbiter of what software gets to handle each job.
Tmux does a worse job than Wezterm while being more complex, a pain in the ass to configure, and feeling less native than just using the built-in tabs and panes of my terminal. Ive also had it break the output and interfere with the keybinds of many apps. Why the hell should I install and configure an extra tool when Wezterm does what I need perfect?
Because I like using a TUI? I do the large majority of my work in my terminal, so why should I swap out of it to look at a picture when Wezterm does it just fine? More importantly, why do you give a fuck what tools somebody uses if they work for them?
I dont give a shit about "Unix philosophy", Wezterm works better for me at all of these tasks than any other options.
I have never seen a GUI file manager with the same level of control using a keyboard as the average TUI file manager.
hexagonwin
in reply to Libra00 • • •i just use xterm. it has proper unicode support now and is very lightweight. or maybe urxvt if i need more features.
on termux where xterm doesn't run i use st instead, it needs some source patching (very barebones) but it works pretty well.
SavvyWolf
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in reply to Libra00 • • •MangoPenguin
in reply to Libra00 • • •The one that comes with your DE is generally just fine, unless you're a serious terminal user.
I think that's a quick way to nuke your install, LLMs are generally wrong about what commands to run and don't understand enough to know when something is dangerous. All it takes is changing one wrong file and everything breaks.
Libra00
in reply to MangoPenguin • • •Fair, I'm definitely not a 'serious' terminal user.
Yeah I was wondering about that, it'd be nice to have an LLM that's specifically trained on like linux system configs and shit, but that's well beyond the scope of my capabilities, so if it doesn't already exist I'm just SOL on that one.
MangoPenguin
in reply to Libra00 • • •HayadSont
in reply to Libra00 • • •OP, to be frank, descriptions like "general terminal stuff" and "nothing terribly fancy" are too generic to be useful here. Though, I suppose this is simply indicative that you're (probably) perfectly served (as is) by Konsole.
Ptyxis
Because it came with the distro and I had no need for something different.
Unsure if I understood you correctly, but perhaps Warp and Wave are worth looking into for ya.
Christian Hergert / ptyxis · GitLab
GitLabLibra00
in reply to HayadSont • • •Sorry, by 'general terminal stuff' and 'nothing fancy' I mean I just like edit config files, run system commands, that sort of thing. But yeah I'm not like doing complex data management or programming or whatever.
I'll check out Warp/Wave, thanks!
HayadSont
in reply to Libra00 • • •No worries, fam! And thank you for clarifying! Based on your answer, I'll assume that Konsole should suit you more than well for the time being. The moment you're starting to 'live' inside a terminal is when looking elsewhere for something more advanced and/or powerful starts to make a lot more sense.
Aight. Glad to hear that you're interested! Have a good one, fam 😉.
monovergent
in reply to Libra00 • • •Whatever comes with your distro or desktop environment ought to be enough for anybody.
Unless you have a minimal window manager that comes with only xterm. Then I'd install xfce4-terminal to get tabs and more reasonably sized text. If for some reason the distro or OS only has sh, I'll also go ahead and install bash, but nothing fancier than that.
Andrzej3K [none/use name]
in reply to Libra00 • • •mystic-macaroni
in reply to Libra00 • • •My suggestion is you focus more on learning to use the terminal than figuring out which one to use. Switching terminals is like a micro version of distro hopping without the benefits.
I use ollama for llms, but being a terminal tool, you need to be comfortable using the terminal.
To answer your original question, I use alacritty. Minimal bells and whistles. Just a terminal.
Libra00
in reply to mystic-macaroni • • •Fair, although I am reasonably comfortable with the terminal (just don't know all the commands and such, always having to look that sort of thing up). I used to run linux installs many years ago back when stuff like slackware and redhat were the standard distros and X was iffy at best so I've done a lot of that sort of thing, just not in like 20+ years.
But I'm seeing lots of recommendations for alacritty, I'll check it out, though most people seem to think konsole is fine unless I have specific needs which I really don't. Thanks!
verdigris
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in reply to Libra00 • • •I'm using st with tmux. It's in written in c, simple configuration can be done by editing the header file(s). More complex customization (such as visual bell or transparency) can be done via patch files.
Not the most beginner friendly terminal but super light weight and fast.
I was tinkering with ollama+deepseek and trying to integrate it into my bash functions, but gave up, because i could not supress that stupid "thinking..." prompt. Found it easyer to just have a browser window open (switching windows can become muscle memory in tiling wms like i3/sway or dwm).
PushButton
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in reply to Libra00 • • •CarrotsHaveEars
in reply to Libra00 • • •It's not nice to make people read through half of your post to find out your question, sir.
Moreover, does the result produced by a search engine not be sufficient? Do you genuinely want Lemmy user's opinions?
Libra00
in reply to CarrotsHaveEars • • •That's why it was right there in the title? What else did you imagine I meant when I titled that post 'the terminal question'?
And yes, I genuinely value the opinions of others (because they can explain why they hold them) over the opinions of AI-generated listicles and 10 year old reddit posts that offer no explanation. Is that not why you participate in internet forums like lemmy?
CarrotsHaveEars
in reply to Libra00 • • •To me it wasn't. The question would be "What terminals do you guys use?"
Please blame AI for internet search all you want, but there are ways to filtered AI-generated posts. For example, search on specific sites which you trust (I don't know, lemmy.ml as the obvious choice, perhaps?).
Libra00
in reply to CarrotsHaveEars • • •Did you miss the important part of the comment you're replying to?
Did you think 'the terminal' question meant something else, or are you just ignoring the whole thing because you're dead-set on being an ass?
CarrotsHaveEars
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in reply to Libra00 • • •GitHub - lanoxx/tilda: A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix
GitHubLibra00
in reply to arsCynic • • •...weird. I don't understand why drop-down terminals are a thing? I can bring up Konsole with a hotkey too, only it just opens a window instead fo doing a fancy animation. That's such a tiny part of its functionality that I can't imagine how 'drop-down' became a descriptor for a terminal instead of just a bullet point on a feature list somewhere, much less a whole-ass category of terminals, lol.
But, fair enough.
arsCynic
in reply to Libra00 • • •Totally agree that objectively it's a tiny part. However, for one, I'𝗆 simply used to it because that how terminals behave in games, and two, because terminals with drop-down as a feature were the only ones that introduced me to a one-button hotkey, just like in a game.
Libra00
in reply to arsCynic • • •Bilb!
in reply to arsCynic • • •BioMyth (He/Him)
in reply to Libra00 • • •I have determined that foot is best for me personally, like alacritty and a couple others, it is very barebones. No tabs or anything like that without tmux. But it doesn't rely on GPU acceleration and is just as fast (or faster) than my experience using GPU accelerated terminals. Easy to configure and since it doesn't have the GPU requirements it works on old hardware like a dream. Only possible issue is that it is wayland only but since that is all I like to use it is perfect.
I find a lot like ghostty and wezterm try to include too many features. All I need a terminal emulator to be is a terminal emulator. But then a lot of these then add tabs, build in multiplexers & more and it is more bloated than I like a simple utility to be. Additionally, I don't need native tabs as a lot I do in the terminal uses SSH so it is easier just to use tmux/zilji and not have to manage it as much.
mvirts
in reply to Libra00 • • •Linux vtty forever! Can't cat data into the framebuffer when your desktop is getting in the way!!
Jk I use gnome terminal for everything, or whatever default is available. It's quite amazing that most of them handle all but the most niche terminal features these days.
When I need to install a terminal emulator for some reason I always go for urxvt.. but it is pretty terrible (it's a great vt but mouse interaction is clunky and graphics are old school) compared to pretty much everything else.