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Which terminal emulator do you use?
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So the “terminal” is the basic CLI that you use in the single-user, text-based mode. Terminal emulators are graphical programs that run in multi-user, graphics-based mode, and they hook into the terminal and allow you to access it inside graphical sessions. Some examples would be alacritty, kitty, urxvt, konsole, or terminator
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I've been using the literal terminal app like a caveman I guess... What do these weird apps give me over my regular terminal?
People mentioned tabs and stuff but like... I have tabs?
Every "terminal app" is a terminal emulator, because non-emulated terminals are physical pieces of hardware.
So you are already using a terminal emulator, I'd guess Gnome Terminal, and it's a fairly full featured modern terminal emulator (in my opinion at least).
Thanks I actually thought this was about emulators like the Tektronics Vt 4052 terminal emulator I used to use.
That's exactly what they are, but instead of connecting to a VAX at the other end of a modem they talk to a shell attached to a pseudo terminal device on the same machine.