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Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

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Post by talldayo »

netspider wrote: post #9
jakebasile wrote: post #4

I remember seeing this terminal emulator, deciding to give it a shot to see what the deal is, and being asked to sign in. I have never uninstalled a program faster in my life. I think I'll just stick to iTerm.

Just like arc web browser i think this is the worst business model

Yeah. "Pay us a recurring fee so we don't make your experience worse" is a business model that flat-out doesn't work with power users, I think. Most of us are old enough to have seen our favorite paid software turn into bloated cloud-based subscription software - we don't want different flavors of the same moldy ice cream.

Warp is just something that will, quite honestly, never appeal to me. I don't think the UI is bad, I don't think their featureset is bad, but I also have no desire to use a proprietary terminal app. Tilix is open source and has worked fine for the past 10 years - I'm not giving it up for a chic frosted-glass background and some syntactic eye-candy for bash.

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Post by nicce »

orliesaurus wrote: post #18

Too late? I feel dirty because I went against my morals and did give you a fake email address the first time around, but now you do this, so what the heck? I also have been trailing out waveterm [1], which is open source and can be used without telemetry or logins. Mike from wave was really nice to chat with and ultimately that's what I decided to use. [1] waveterm.dev

Can JS/TS based terminal be competitive?

Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

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Post by georgethomas »

I've now tried Warp twice (once off the back of this post).

Switching back to iTerm2 again because of https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/1811

I like the sound of the other two features (rich text editing and automatic AI commands) but the muscle-memory cost is too high.

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Post by johnnyjeans »

neom wrote: post #13

ha - never heard of this so I downloaded it. Still get presented with a sign up screen but I guess before you couldn't skip? There is a skip option and when you click it it says "are you SURE you want to skip?" - isn't this a technical product for technical users? If they're trying to rehabilitate their image, I certainly can't see being patronizing is the answer. Only thing I'll be skipping is this software.

> isn't this a technical product for technical users?

I would expect a technical user would be immediately skeptical at the value proposition. I can't even trust git to not break itself when I'm using it directly. Throwing in an LLM and natural language sounds like an express elevator to hell.

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Post by johnnyjeans »

selectnull wrote: post #19

The older I get, the more appreciation I have for simple tools. Terminal is certainly one of those tools that I want to stay simple. Good luck to the team, not for me.

Still using xterm, don't plan on stopping anytime soon. It's not the simplest terminal in the world, not by any means... but it's never blown my foot off and I can trust to just work.

Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

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Post by aimazon »

corytheboyd wrote: post #15

Warp is still a development tool run by a VC backed company, and history tells us how this will end, despite positive intentions and promises of “we won’t be evil, seriously”. Other terminals are free, open, and more than good enough, why would I use Warp? I’ll pay for good development tools, it’s not about that at all, it’s just that Warp is a… terminal. I pay for JetBrains because it’s that much better than the fre…

I like it. I pay for it. I expect it’ll go to shit when the money tap is turned off but I’m enjoying it while I can. I’d rather see a bunch of VC money subsidise destined-to-fail developer tool businesses than… not, because the technical founders of these companies are typically using VC money to pay for things they want to make and at least some of it is open-source.

Warp is good, it’s a step up from iterm for people who spend a bunch of time in the terminal but don’t want to invest their brain power into emacs or vim or whatever is real nerd software nowadays. $25/month is basically free for the amount of time I use it. I’d pay $25/month for anything that makes my life marginally easier.

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