News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Fast Machines, Slow Machines. Parent comment

Re:Fast Machines, Slow Machines by systems_glitch on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @01:47PM (#36509982)
Solid point, but some of the suckless stuff is pretty good, I use `dmenu` with i3 and often run the `st` terminal.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Fast Machines, Slow Machines by nvy on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:14PM (#36511173)
st is actually one of the worst terminals available. For all their purported minimalism, it has abysmally bad performance. See https://danluu.com/term-latency/
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Fast Machines, Slow Machines by systems_glitch on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:21PM (#36512767)
Huh, interesting. Never noticed. Might have something to do with pretty regularly using actual serial terminals. I don't know how the testing under Mac OS X affects it -- I only run it under Linux and OpenBSD, on OS X I just use the OS X terminal. Anyway, `st` does its job for me!

"Worst" for me is stuff that grabs keys it shouldn't, scrolling that doesn't work right with `screen` and/or `tmux`, etc.

[ Parent | on HN ]