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For the Linux users, any compelling case for alacritty (or similar style renders)? I'm quite happy with termite, fast startup, handles fonts well, etc. I've use urxvt in the past too, that that was a little trickier with fonts and some settings. Can't say I've ever wanted my display to be faster, but maybe I'm missing a use case?
I switched from Cmder to Windows Terminal after using the former exclusively for years. I really like that Cmder comes with Unix tools out of the box, but Windows Terminal is a better terminal IMO since it only does a few things, but it does them well. SSH, vim, tmux, and other complex terminal programs mostly just work. It's also much more straight forward to add new custom shells/profiles than with Cmder. One annoy…
The admin terminal story on Terminal was a bit of a mess last time I looked, I think for security reasons. Has anything changed?
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It's GPU accelerated and fast, scrolling is extremely smooth and it looks better. It's also Wayland-native if that matters to you. I use it with Sway as a tiling manager, it's perfect.
Smooth because of the faster drawing you mean? termite at least scrolls by pixels (not lines) and seems smooth enough to me. But maybe for something like fast compiling output? I did try alacritty some time ago, but didn't really notice a difference. Is there particular things you can see the difference in?
Also, the ability to run shaders is surprisingly interesting, something it shares with Alacritty and Secret Geometry's Cathode (RIP).