I can't recommend kitty enough it's really great!
I'm sort of in the same position I guess. I'm interested in other options, but so far Konsole has more than satisfied my needs. It does everything I need and is easy to customize.
I really enjoy alacritty, it provides you a terminal with nice defaults.
For a bit more base functionality, such as tabs or split panes, you could look into kitty or wezterm for example.
In the case of alacritty you'd need to look at other tools such as tmux or zellij for multi-terminal workspaces in one window.
Tilix
For me that's the one, even though I've also been using KDE plasma for the better part of the past ten years. Very configurable, going as far as to have an option to disable CSD. It also looks like a proper modern app without being dumbed down.
I use Gnome Terminal and Mate Terminal on my laptop. Nothing fancy, they just work. They do what I need (which is run a shell), they support tabs, and transparency is just nice to have. I also run Tilda because once in a while I need to enter a quick command without changing desktops.
I just never would recommend mixing Gnome's Terminal and Konsole. Gnome and KDE never seem to play nice with each other. Besides that, go wild.
I use both Konsole and Kitty and both are excellent.
Tillix with zellji is golden
Isn't that overkill?
On Cosmic you can tile multiple windows in tabs. Tabs are essential for me, I tried Alacritty (and it had quite some issues but I got it to work) and switched back to Konsole
Wherever possible I use the XFCE defaults, as I basically turn Budgie into XFCE. So I use the XFCE-Terminal, and it's probably the most comfortable TE I've tried.
I was a fan of Alacritty and used it for the last 3 years, but I was frustrated by the lack of features (no scroll bar, no native tabs) and the disrespectful way the developers handled feature requests.
A few weeks ago someone on this site recommended Wezterm, so I tried it out, and it's amazing. It's everything I was hoping Alacritty would be or could become.
Read this thread for more details, specifically the reply by wez: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/discussions/1769
I was a fan of Alacritty and used it for the last 3 years, but I was frustrated by the lack of features
You were a fan, but didn't realise that it's minimal on purpose?
It's AFAIK the only popular, minimal, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It doesn't have tabs, multiplexing, and other features because it's not supposed to. Your wm/tmux handles that already, and scrollbars are waste of screen space.
Would you also complain that a flat head screwdriver is missing those cross bits to help you unscrew phillips heads?
Would be foot but monaspace font doesn't work that well, so kitty
As long as I have my aliases working and I can strip away unnecessary gui clutter, I'm fine with whatever.
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