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Re:Kitty 0.50 by devsda on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:17AM (#50364009)
> Also funny/sad: both call themselves 'cross-platform', but then don't support Windows

Both might have thought 'If you are patient enough to tolerate a slower web based start menu, you are probably not a target market for a hardware accelerated terminal' :D

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Re:Kitty 0.50 by jodrellblank on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:46AM (#50378995)
And yet Windows Terminal is hardware accelerated and is two years older than GhosTTY 2019 vs 2021)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/

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Re:Kitty 0.50 by flohofwoe on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:44AM (#50389348)
Tbf, 'hardware accelerated' doesn't mean much when your text renderer is slow (which apparently seems to have been fixed after the 'Muratori drama': https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2022/02/07/windows...)
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