i honestly don't get why people think ghostty is fast. the gpu acceleration slows it down. maybe i push my machines harder than other people but when the machine is under load either gpu or cpu ghostty starts lagging super hard vs iterm. i've never had a problem with iterm render speed, but iterm never starts lagging when my box is fully maxed out and ghostty does regularly. i try it every few years and ive never seen any improvement.
Life is too short for a slow terminal
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Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal
#72I'm surprised people are still using nvm, considering it's impact on shell startup time. I can't recommend switching to mise highly enough: https://mise.en.dev/
I used to use volta but then they killed it and told people to switch to mise. The mise setup is just way too complicated. I just am tired of having different config files for different tooling when it should just read whats in the package.json and be done with it.
package.json config is supported https://mise.jdx.dev/lang/node.html#nvmrc-node-version-and-p...
Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal
#73Am I the weird one? I usually have 3/4 terminals open at a time and rarely open new ones. Terminal startup speed is a non-issue for me. The only thing I demand to be fast on my terminal is grep reverse search (ctrl+r) and of course typing a character. But if your terminal can't keep up with your typing speed there is something deeply wrong with it.
Same here. Main terminal w/ tmux, editor terminal with tmux (runs nvim so I can jump to it with a key bind), ssh to remote server with remote tmux, scratchpad term with tmux. I try to reuse the same panes a lot, otherwise open a new tmux window temporarily to do something (C-b c). Basically never open a whole new separate terminal instance on top of those.
Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal
#74I read Ghostty runs in a single process, but whenever I tried something like that eg a client/server model in urxvt or foot, I ended up reverting, because eventually some weird state affected the daemon and had to restart it killing all my terminals, so nowdays I just run foot standalone, with sway tabbing and splits are kind of built into the wm anyways. But keep hearing about Ghostty and wondering if I am missing o…
foot is great, I have yet to use anything better. I suspect Ghostty is aimed at part-time and full-time Mac users. I don't get the hype.
Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal
#75"The single biggest win is what's not there: no oh-my-zsh, no prezto or plugin manager. I've honestly never understood the appeal of these frameworks." "Most of these optimizations are about leaving stuff out. It's about being intentional and only adding things you're going to use." I don't use X11 or a similar graphics layer, only textmode. Thus I don't use a terminal emulator I don't use zsh. I use NetBSD sh Smalle…
I use the term "terminal emulator" in the same sense as in the blog post:
"The terminal itself
Shell startup is only half the story, because the emulator adds its own input latency. I use Ghostty, which is GPU-accelerated and native, and my config is just seven lines long."
I do not use Ghostty or anything similar^1
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terminal_emulators
Further, the terminal emulator cited by the blog author requires a graphics driver
I do not use a graphics driver
Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal
#76Life is too short to use slow and problematic system, Linux forever.
Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal
#77I was so disappointed that Ghostty doesn't properly render Khmer text. Abugidas are important and you have to be able to render the symbols non-linearly. Cosmic term is the only terminal I've seen that actually works. But it's a bit slow on my 14 year old laptop.
Kitty doesn't work, alacrity doesn't work, foot doesn't work, gnome terminal doesn't work, xfce terminal doesn't work, urxvt doesn't work, xterm doesn't work, the list goes on.
Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal
#78I keep reading all these posts about terminal slowness, and here i am just sticking with Konsole + fish + starship.rs. Seems fine and responsive to me.
Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal
#79I'm surprised people are still using nvm, considering it's impact on shell startup time. I can't recommend switching to mise highly enough: https://mise.en.dev/
How often do you launch a fresh terminal though? I start mine with a script to have favourite tabs ready at boot and then generally not much afterwards.
I set the framework key in function row to pop a new terminal. It's amazing.
Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal
#80Life is also too short for the three weeks I then spent configuring it.