Is foot The Fastest Terminal On Linux?

[@david486038]

Wow 6 subscribers! Keep calm and carry on!

[@JamesChampionLinux]

The attentions is getting too much to handle!

[@soyfreeGuy]

'foot --server' and footclient, what can you ask for more from the foo terminal!

[@anon_y_mousse]

I'd not heard of this terminal before, so I'll have to give it a try. I'm intrigued that there seems to be quite a few developers these days that keep starting new projects in C. It's kind of inspiring to see that not everyone has been brainwashed into one of the new cults.

[@JamesChampionLinux]

There's probably a Rust rewrite of foot coming in the near future. ;)

[@samlaki4051]

how is your video so reminiscent of the cinematography of high quality movies from the 60s?

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Assuming you're not being ironic :) rather than a webcam to record, I use a digital camera with a 35mm lens and manual focus on "cinema" mode. Notice that if I shoot the video under natural light, unlike this one, I don't get this slight "strobing" effect, and this is because of LED light bulbs. I did a video about this camera and the link is below if you want to know more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6PPc6KVeq2raJY

[@samlaki4051]

@@JamesChampionLinux oh yes thats awesome! thank you sir!

[@shawn284]

Another quality video to start my day off with! Consistently interesting topics for all your videos James, I really appreciate them!

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Thanks shawn, I hope that I get a nice mix of different Linux topics. :)

[@grossteilfahrer]

Back in old times I considered xterm bloated (with the tek emulsion and all) and used rxvt to save memory. I had a 4 megabyte grid 386 laptop, it was very tight and swapped a lot.

[@JamesChampionLinux]

rxvt just broke on me one day some years ago, and I could never fix it. :(

[@grossteilfahrer]

@@JamesChampionLinux I haven't had it running in many years either

[@grossteilfahrer]

Can it be that it was never made fully Unicode / had hardcoded characters?

[@JamesChampionLinux]

I just remember an update broke it, and I couldn't do anything to fix it.

[@l4nc]

MY ... is faster than yours, MINE is better than ... - i have been seeing these words for years in linux

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Like you say, this type of thing has been happening for a long time.

[@moussaadem7933]

it's beautiful seeing people passionate about these things, as useless as they seem, these are a sign of a community that cares about tge details and quality of products and explores all sorts of possibilities then put them in competition. It's thanks to linux and this behaviour that we have a lot if options for terminals and we have some truly great terminal emulators

[@jorgel.2222]

I'm following your videos with special attention, which are very important as a contribution and different from (almost) everything else found on KZbin today. Now, I think I'm not wrong when I say that you are spreading a training work in computing that covers many unknown points (at least for me) and that once learned, become essential. Keep going, and little by little. Greetings.

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Wow, thank you!

[@inboundbark]

you almost have 1k subs now!

[@JamesChampionLinux]

e-celebrity status incomming? ;)

[@Xiao_PP]

Based FOOT enjoyer here

[@SegFaultOnLine1984]

🤤🤤

[@ahrzb]

Honestly I used to use kitty as it is one of the few that can display Persian text properly (say I curl a website or an API), now I am trying ghostty, mainly because of the hype, also it would be nice if my mac and linux machines behave the same.

[@JamesChampionLinux]

What do you think of ghostty so far?

[@ahrzb]

Looks nice and native, slow startup, and fast enough. The thing is it looks native on mac and linux which is nice.

[@FurqanHun]

the only terminals i've used are gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, ghostty. After shifting to linux i used gnome for a day so i spent a day with gnome terminal (didn't liked it), i've since been using xfce4-terminal (for the past 8-9 months), i tried ghostty the day it launched but to me it looked like gnome-terminal (as it also uses gtk-libwaita instead of just gtk), i will try others in future but i don't think i would switch to anything else from xfce4-terminal...

[@JamesChampionLinux]

I need to get around to trying ghostty.

[@FurqanHun]

@@JamesChampionLinux to me... it just felt like gnome-terminal with some kitty like capabilities, i'd love to see what you'd say about it 👀

[@JamesChampionLinux]

I'll probably do a video on it. Thanks! :)

[@paxpacis4274]

Keep it up and you will upgrade from the original six Avengers subscriber team to Ocean 11, and from there is only the sky. Rainy and cloudy due to being british, but still the sky ;)

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Can I swap for a clear and sunny sky? ;)

[@JamesChampionLinux]

@paxpacis4274 Thanks for the unexpected donation! Much appreciated! :)

[@robotron1236]

Don't worry, I'll be out here calling myself an OG in a few years when you rack up like 50k subs. Lol.

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Yep, newer subscribers won't know these OG feelings. :)

[@LuxioTheMan]

based angle and focus

[@itsnony77]

Andrea Borman sent me here

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Quite a big Linux channel. Thanks.

[@AhmedNasser-tj2fb]

what about Suckless' st terminal?

[@JamesChampionLinux]

I think the benchmarks that I referenced said that st isn't as fast as say xterm on various metrics. I presume that's st without any patches.

[@comosaycomosah]

@@JamesChampionLinux dang was curious about this

[@jyvben1520]

does not run on x, so

[@JamesChampionLinux]

It's a Wayland terminal emulator so it won't run on X11.

[@mbarrio]

So the answer is no. Alacritty is the faster one. test for yourself. Also, it doesn't matter `time for i in {1..1000000}; do echo "$i"; done`