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Ghostty in review: how's the new terminal emulator? (thelibre.news)
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A few months ago, a new terminal emulator was released. It's called ghostty, and it has been a highly anticipated terminal emulator for a while, especially due to the coverage that it received from ThePrimeagen, who had been using for a while, while it was in private beta.

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[-] tkw8@lemm.ee 45 points 6 days ago

This feels like a paid advertisement ”review” to me. There is basically nothing negative or critical at all. No places to improve? Here is the most critical bit in the entire post:

If you use GNOME, you should definitely be giving Ghostty a try. To be completely fair, I did not dislike using it on my other KDE Plasma — based machine either, but it does not feel as “native” yet. One day it will, though…

Mmmmm 😕

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 21 points 6 days ago

In support is that, I'd point to

As you keep navigating through the hamburger menu, one thing you will notice is that, unlike on the default GNOME terminal, there is no graphical Settings menu to speak of here. The reason for that is that Ghostty is so customizable that it would have been pretty much impossible to provide a practical GUI to expose all its configuration options: you need the full expressivity of a configuration file for that.

as making a virtue out of a lack. I really don't buy that "impossible" line. It was just too much work or work they during want to do.

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