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I'd love to try out Linux again. Is the rMBP story any better than it was in 2014? Last I heard there were way too many driver problems.
iTerm2 now supports Metal for GPU-based rendering by default (when you aren't on battery). It's now blazingly fast all of the time.
Which is odd, cause Kitty does, IIUC.
I prefer it to iTerm because it's so. Damn. Fast. It's the only software (besides Sublime) I run on my laptop that actually feels like it's using the 40 years of transistor improvements I'm paying for.
I know iTerm recently added a Metal renderer but I need ligature support, which iTerm Metal doesn't have.
Maintainer has also been responsive on GitHub.
What I could really use would be a terminal emulator that is: a library that I can feed data directly into (without a pty) LGPL, MIT, or BSD able to quickly serialize its internal state (make me a blob) able to restore state if I feed it a blob of saved state, even across different software builds portable to recent versions of Linux and Windows
tcl.tk ?
Gpu powered terminal emulator? This performs almost 100x worse than Mac OS Terminal.app. Cat-ting a long file takes 100x longer to draw on the screen! Isn’t it supposed to be faster if it’s “GPU powered”?
Gpu powered terminal emulator? This performs almost 100x worse than Mac OS Terminal.app. Cat-ting a long file takes 100x longer to draw on the screen! Isn’t it supposed to be faster if it’s “GPU powered”?
What I could really use would be a terminal emulator that is: a library that I can feed data directly into (without a pty) LGPL, MIT, or BSD able to quickly serialize its internal state (make me a blob) able to restore state if I feed it a blob of saved state, even across different software builds portable to recent versions of Linux and Windows
That sounds interesting! Out of curiosity, what is your use case for those features?
It is useful for virtual machine snapshots. You can restore the virtual machine with the terminal state intact.