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They have signalled to me, loud and clear, that their product is not for people like me, and I will never try it. Doesn't matter that they've removed the requirement, we've all seen what type of product this is.
People on HN are so ludicrously out of touch. Yes we all wish we could live in Hackerville and spend all day tweaking config files to customize our ultra fast rendering OSS terminal emulators. In the real world most people are not using terminals for the sake of fooling around with config files, they are trying to accomplish real tasks. For these people, paying for a terminal or using something that is login-gated is…
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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 b…
The damage is done. You can't overthrow the king (whether you pledge fealty to iTerm2, PowerShell/WSL, Putty, Hyper ... ) if you have to sign up to get past the castle gates. And in the two years it took to remove the signup, the townsfolk have realized their kings are good enough for what they want to do anyway.
Nothing to add, just wanted to say I really applaud your dedication to that analogy in this comment.
People on HN are so ludicrously out of touch. Yes we all wish we could live in Hackerville and spend all day tweaking config files to customize our ultra fast rendering OSS terminal emulators. In the real world most people are not using terminals for the sake of fooling around with config files, they are trying to accomplish real tasks. For these people, paying for a terminal or using something that is login-gated is…
Not because they aren't attracting enough users or something. No you see because that might require you to be at least a little wrong. So that can't be true.
Also most people have really good metrics and telemetry to measure their productivity and are really good at telling what makes them productive and how to invest in it.
No you see, don't worry, it is HN that is out of touch, not you.
For those that have to bounce between Mac and Linux for work/personal reasons, I cannot recommend Kitty terminal enough. The main thing that's a big of a pain is you'll probably want to set up a scrollback pager (I use neovim as mine but vim works too) so you easily search the terminal output and copy/paste from it. I use # https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/719#issuecomment-... scrollback_pager nvim -u ~/.co…
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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 b…
I personally will pay a subscription for literally every piece of software I use if it means the software makes me more productive. On an hourly basis my time is worth more than $100/hr. That means if a subscription tool is $10/month it only needs to save me 6 minutes of time, per month, to make it worth it.
My fear of paid software mostly stems from not actually owning what I pay for. I know people who are (horrifyingly) unable to use Git without a paid GUI that handles everything for them. If one day they update their computer and it's unsupported, or if the developer quits updating it, they've gotta learn a new UI. I'd rather just learn how to use the original tool quickly, and save myself a few hundred hours with 2 or 3 macros.
To each their own. I've paid for too much software that has gone to shit in the past, and I'm perfectly productive with free tools I can actually own.
For those that have to bounce between Mac and Linux for work/personal reasons, I cannot recommend Kitty terminal enough. The main thing that's a big of a pain is you'll probably want to set up a scrollback pager (I use neovim as mine but vim works too) so you easily search the terminal output and copy/paste from it. I use # https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/719#issuecomment-... scrollback_pager nvim -u ~/.co…
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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 peopl…
$25/month is “basically free”?