I know this probably comes up a lot and is liable to spark some debate, but I’m curious what the good options are for terminals. I’ve skimmed some reddit/lemmy posts about it and looked at a few options and I dunno how to decide between them because they all seem like they’re too narrowly focused on some particular use case. I’m just using it for general terminal stuff, nothing terribly fancy. I’m aware that there’s not one terminal to rule them all or anything, so I’m curious: what do you folks use, and more importantly, why do you use that over the (many) other options available?
Personally I’ve just been using konsole since it’s what came with kde and it seems nice and all, but I feel like I’m missing out on features I don’t even know about. One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such where i’m doing the tinkering instead of constantly tabbing out to duck.ai or w/e.
OP, to be frank, descriptions like “general terminal stuff” and “nothing terribly fancy” are too generic to be useful here. Though, I suppose this is simply indicative that you’re (probably) perfectly served (as is) by Konsole.
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Because it came with the distro and I had no need for something different.
Unsure if I understood you correctly, but perhaps Warp and Wave are worth looking into for ya.
Sorry, by ‘general terminal stuff’ and ‘nothing fancy’ I mean I just like edit config files, run system commands, that sort of thing. But yeah I’m not like doing complex data management or programming or whatever.
I’ll check out Warp/Wave, thanks!
No worries, fam! And thank you for clarifying! Based on your answer, I’ll assume that Konsole should suit you more than well for the time being. The moment you’re starting to ‘live’ inside a terminal is when looking elsewhere for something more advanced and/or powerful starts to make a lot more sense.
Aight. Glad to hear that you’re interested! Have a good one, fam 😉.