Use Alacritty instead of Termite

Re:Use Alacritty instead of Termite by xyzzy_plugh on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:10PM (#27082676)

Dubious indeed. I gave Alacritty a really good shot, as I was super excited to have a faster terminal. But my entire experience was plagued with slowdowns -- huge latencies, cat'ing huge files was very slow. I spent tons of time trying to tune things to make it good but it just never got there.

Basically every other "simple" terminal I've found behaves better -- xterm, urxvt, konsole, even iTerm2.

I have no idea how they can claim "fastest".

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Re:Use Alacritty instead of Termite by nemoden on Friday May 07, 2021 @10:16PM (#27083073)

I did quite a bit of testing of alacritty, kitty, iTerm2, and default macos terminal. Kitty shown best results even using test that alacritty is using (tree /) vim is faster in kitty (by perception), both when ran without multiplexor and inside tmux session

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Re:Use Alacritty instead of Termite by Cloudef on Friday May 07, 2021 @11:21PM (#27083509)

alacritty is GPU accelerated terminal. It may not be faster depending on your setup. xterm is also one of the fastest software terminals out there.

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Re:Use Alacritty instead of Termite by xyzzy_plugh on Saturday May 08, 2021 @03:54PM (#27090146)

Yeah but their slogan isn't "fastest terminal depending on your setup."

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