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Which terminal emulator do you use? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by tourist@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] pelotron@midwest.social 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I don't know the difference between a terminal and a terminal emulator, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

Lately using Foot since that's what my distro shipped with.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 10 months ago

Realistically, no difference.

They are called emulators because "Terminal" used to mean a full-screen text interface to a mainframe. The functionality has carried on, which is why terminals behave pretty much the same on any platform. You don't use your system's regular text fields in a terminal emulator, for example.

[–] squid_slime@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's your DE?

[–] pelotron@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

Hyprland

[–] jodanlime@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What distro ships my favorite term foot?

[–] blue_struct@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Fedora Sericea (Silverblue variant with sway)

[–] pelotron@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

Garuda

[–] aes@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

A terminal is the thing that looks like it might be a computer, but nobody is home, it's just connected to a modem. Or, maybe, if you're lucky, The Computer of your university.

A terminal emulator is, well, an emulator, so you can use a 1970's shell, right there on your computer, just like you can emulate and play Pong or Space Invaders...

Hope that helps