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iTerm2 is is the main thing holding you back? Give tilix a try and you will forget all about iTerm2

https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/

Then you can also enjoy:

- running containers natively without a clunky VM

- KVM virtualization - say goodbye to virtualbox

- middle-click paste - sounds odd but is really intuitive

- infinite desktop customization

- level up your linux skills - nothing does this faster than running linux as your daily driver

- no longer at the mercy of one company potentially removing x86 for ARM because it benefits them not you https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/27/21196611/arm-macbook-desk...

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Both iTerm and Tilix are nice but once I tried Kitty I never looked back. Cross platform, too.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

I'm really happy with alacritty https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/, blazingly fast and if you're happy with living inside a terminal multiplexer it's really a good experience

I was using it before and I find it heavier than kitty. Now I am running kitty mainly because of wayland support and I did switch to wayland.

I found Kitty underwhelming. Used it for a while because iTerm was too slow/heavy/I used tmux anyway, but no global hotkey + terrible scrolling made me switch anyway.

Thanks for the kitty recommendation. I'm going to give it a try for a few days.

I'd add:

- being permitted to choose your own hardware. And even (heaven forfend) repair it.

Good call, can't believe I left that one out!

Thank you for the tilix suggestion! All I ever wanted was a terminal that will rewrite the shell output if you resize the terminal.

I hear things about kitty but it’s not an Ubuntu package so ️

It is for me. I've just tried it. As so often unfortunately the package is sufficiently out of date to make installation of the author's prebuilt binary (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/binary.html) worthwhile.

Well then I could just go back to enlightenment’s terminal :)

I think you’re severely underestimating what iTerm can do.

Can you share some examples that are unique to iTerm2?

* The text research feature : it highlight what you search for and you can switch to a regexp. It works well with1G+ log data

* You can set a color for each tab, so you instantaneously target the good ones

* You have an history replay

* Picture integration. Useful to visualize data from sql query in my psql shell

* And some others I forgot.

I hope that more and more, there will be linux's native alternatives when I'll switch the day after the hypothetical death of my late 2011 macbook

I’ll let the website do the talking: https://iterm2.com/features.html. It’s not mentioned there, but iTerm’s has native tmux integration too: I barely know how to use it, but they show up as native tabs and windows that I can drag around and tile as I wish.

I'll give you iterm's tmux mode, seems tilix has an open issue for it but not implemented yet. https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/480

Everything else listed on iterm's site seem fairly trivial to do with tilix and other linux emulators in general.

In any event, lots of this stuff is better implemented in the shell itself (zsh and so on) much more portable that way.

Both iTerm2 and tilix are great on the desktop. Terminals are just a solved problem these days. Hell even Windows is catching up with their new terminal app (not to mention WSL(2)).

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