The BEST Terminal Setup for 2024 (as a software engineer)

[@MelkeyDev]

Subscribe if you like hot dogs

[@danielmajer1648]

Huskies are hot. This sound bad..

[@james-perkins]

Men will spend hours playing with terminal emulators instead of going to therapy. 💗

[@linkarzu]

My wife agrees to this (you wouldn't understand)

[@SteeleMan223]

I spent many hours playing with terminal emulators and ended up needing therapy. I would recommend a Goggins backtrack while you work to make sure you don't end up like me.

[@jostasizzi818]

Therapy cost your money Terminal cost your soul Lol 🤣

[@therealslimaddy]

I recently switched to 🦶 terminal and it’s pretty awesome! Main selling point its very feature rich, lightweight and client-server model

[@8Znv2kqWlBc6]

I switched from Yabai to Aerospace, which is way better and has much less configuration. There is no need for SKHD because that functionality is built into the tool, and it's much less buggy, IMHO.

[@lastink444]

A series would be nice. Especially about window management

[@mvaldes]

what if i'm a professional chef, what terminal should i use?

[@sighup124]

Why you still on yabai? Aerospace is the shit now.

[@linkarzu]

If you reading the comments feel that WezTerm is slower/choppier/laggier than Ghostty and Kitty, set: max_fps = 120, That was my only complaint about WezTerm, being slow, but with this setting both of them will feel as fast

[@hamm8934]

This has never worked for me. It fixes it on windows machines for me, but does nothing for mac or ubuntu

[@linkarzu]

@ I'm on an M1 mac, and it did fix it for me, wezterm and ghostty feel both smooth after this change

[@hamm8934]

my mac is intel based. i dont have it off the top of my head, but there's an open wezterm ticket about this problem on intel macs and some amd linux setups

[@linkarzu]

@@hamm8934 I see, so that must be it then. Thanks for sharing, this will be useful for an update I need to post

[@linkarzu]

@@hamm8934 that explains it then, I don't have an Intel mac to test on, but thanks for the update

[@GoolagThemTube]

I always end up switching back to iTerm. The alternatives don't give me anything that makes them better. Some of them are even highly overrated in my opinion.

[@kal.leroux]

what's the difference between those and using simple terminal with tmux ?

[@2012knp]

st is Linux only and WezTerm is GPU accelerated

[@kinsyu4907]

I'd love to watch how you set up a new device

[@SR-ti6jj]

Doesn't this guy use vsc*de?

[@mentalmarvin]

You got the Mac Studio instead of the mini m4??

[@neveralegend-kt8rd]

You should consider using Aerospace over Yabai/skhd

[@ilkinmehdiyev5700]

What about Kitty?

[@j4yd34d5]

Kovid is far too based for the average modern man which limits kitty’s user count. But it’s probably the best on all fronts.

[@jeffreysmith9837]

The only real answer

[@vladimirkolosov8836]

terminal that "phoning home"? no thanks especially after I saw how kitty dev answered about this clearly issue

[@ilkinmehdiyev5700]

Oh didn’t even know that theres this kind of issue (“phone home”). Deep diving it seems, kitty have some issues regarding community and development. Interesting

[@j4yd34d5]

@@vladimirkolosov8836 It doesn't "phone home" it checks for updates, a feature which can be disabled or gutted entirely. Use a firewall dude, you don't have to guess which programs are opening network connections on your system.

[@vking225]

when video on switching back to nvim?

[@tobyzieglerrr]

Kitty is my terminal. Its great.

[@InfinityN]

Ghostty would be interesting if it wasn't for the fact that it uses GTK4 on Linux.

[@cesrrr01]

this is a non-issue, you can disable window decoration or eventually use libghost whit wathever gui you like once this is stable

[@danielmajer1648]

Topic idea: bashrc config.

[@teksimian]

he uses terminal tabs instead of tmux.

[@fakebizPrez]

Please stop using this thumbnail. Sincerely, earth.

[@MelkeyDev]

Hey, No

[@metaltyphoon]

zoxide fzf rg yazi jq bat fd Yes… even on windows

[@kooraiber]

Kitty still the best

[@ktappdev]

KZbinrs please stop flexing on meeee

[@mal-avcisi9783]

Brother, those are not the best terminals, there are better terminals. For example, Kitty.

[@stickyblicky11]

Loved the lua aspect of Wezterm but it just felt slow with a lot of input lag when typing maybe its because Im using wsl but had to switch back to windows terminal

[@linkarzu]

If you reading the comments feel that WezTerm is slower/choppier/laggier than Ghostty and Kitty, set: max_fps = 120, That was my only complaint about WezTerm, being slow, but with this setting both of them will feel as fast

[@Lohan_Guedes]

back to nvim again? LOL

[@Lohan_Guedes]

(Me who goes back and forth with vim/nvim/emacs/vscode instead of actually coding)

[@lukeskywalker7029]

Find the error: "Best setup for engineers", "diving deep into the computer", "I am on macOS" 🤓

[@teawithmilknhoney]

lol, find a person from the iT industry who's not working on a mac. Devops don't count, they're a different breed

[@spenchurch]

do u use arch btw?

[@lukeskywalker7029]

@@spenchurch nixOS 😎

[@lukeskywalker7029]

​@@teawithmilknhoney 37signals just siwtched to it as default, which is already more than 1. Maybe its an engineer vs programmer thing 🤡

[@rabiddoughnuts]

​@@teawithmilknhoney I don't know any that are on Mac, I know some that were on it, and then when they needed to start doing anything, realized even windows was easier, and Linux easiest for actual using tools, especially since most of the systems they are maintaining are linux

[@RenderingUser]

Lets goooo. neovim next