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Re:iTerm2 3.3 by dijit on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:57PM (#20588769)
I agree with you, or, I did, until they switched to the metal renderer. Now iTerm is as fast as terminal.app (provided you use the same settings)
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Re:iTerm2 3.3 by bradknowles on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:47PM (#20589465)
So, in this case, why would I prefer iTerm over Terminal.app?

Seriously, I don't understand what the benefits are, if it's only "just as fast as Terminal.app".

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Re:iTerm2 3.3 by ShamelessC on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:23PM (#20589678)
It has quite a few nice features that Terminal doesn't have. But yeah, if you don't need those features then just use Terminal.
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Re:iTerm2 3.3 by dijit on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:43PM (#20596471)
Speed is secondary. iTerm has much richer features, even the hotkeys are super nice.

But among those features is tmux integration and now python extension support.

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Re:iTerm2 3.3 by Cort3z on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:31PM (#20589724)
iTerm has very many features that are great for productivity which the default Terminal.app does not have.
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Re:iTerm2 3.3 by phailhaus on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:02AM (#20592612)
Did you read the release notes for 3.3? How many of those features are supported by Terminal.app?
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