Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
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Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
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Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#2I was surprised that kitty became 'GPU based'. Then I realized it's an entirely different tool than the kitty fork of putty.
I do wish creators of these tools would search for existing names to see if they are already in use. I would not mind if they were tools with sufficiently different purpose. But this just confuses users (and potential users) of either one.
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#3I've installed it and I like it. Much easier than having to install tmux and built-in copy paste. I'm not a power user but I will certainly be using this. Good work.
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#4Wonder how it compares to https://hyper.is/ -- Hyper isn't directly bound to OpenGL, but it uses Electron, and maybe ends up in a similar place?
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#5This is somewhat of an aside, but the fastest terminal emulator I've ever used is rxvt-unicode. I don't even know if it utilizes the GPU (doubt it), but damn is it snappy. Try it out if you're on GNU / Linux.
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#6This is somewhat of an aside, but the fastest terminal emulator I've ever used is rxvt-unicode. I don't even know if it utilizes the GPU (doubt it), but damn is it snappy. Try it out if you're on GNU / Linux.
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.
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#7Not affiliated, but recently switched to Kitty from iTerm 2 on OS X on my main at-work MacBook Pro and I’ve been very impressed. It’s snappy, easy to configure and works well with my zsh/tmux setup with a few tweaks. I would love to drop tmux in favor of kitty’s sessions and multiplexing, but old habits die hard, so it will take some time.
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#8This is somewhat of an aside, but the fastest terminal emulator I've ever used is rxvt-unicode. I don't even know if it utilizes the GPU (doubt it), but damn is it snappy. Try it out if you're on GNU / Linux.
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.
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#9Best terminal I've found except for a complete deal-breaker for me: Lack of support for bitmap fonts (meaning I cannot comfortably use them in low DPI monitors), and the author has no intention of adding them.
A pity, maybe some day either the author changes his mind or Alacritty will be less buggy to make it a straight upgrade to Kitty. In the meantime, Termite it is.
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#10This is somewhat of an aside, but the fastest terminal emulator I've ever used is rxvt-unicode. I don't even know if it utilizes the GPU (doubt it), but damn is it snappy. Try it out if you're on GNU / Linux.
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.
No idea, I've never tried to install it on a MBP. When it comes to Apple hardware, I tend to stick to macOS. It's Unix enough for me and while I prefer something like awesomewm, I'm willing to accept the limitations of the desktop environment and go about my day.
Linux desktop in 2018 is incredible though. On my desktop, I'm running an RX 580 on AMD's open source drivers and I can play modern Windows games at >= 60fps using WINE + dxvk. Steam is even officially supporting it now. Just wait 2-3 years and GNU / Linux will be the way to go.