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For the Linux users, any compelling case for alacritty (or similar style renders)? I'm quite happy with termite, fast startup, handles fonts well, etc. I've use urxvt in the past too, that that was a little trickier with fonts and some settings. Can't say I've ever wanted my display to be faster, but maybe I'm missing a use case?

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It's GPU accelerated and fast, scrolling is extremely smooth and it looks better. It's also Wayland-native if that matters to you. I use it with Sway as a tiling manager, it's perfect.

Smooth because of the faster drawing you mean? termite at least scrolls by pixels (not lines) and seems smooth enough to me. But maybe for something like fast compiling output? I did try alacritty some time ago, but didn't really notice a difference. Is there particular things you can see the difference in?

I couldn't tell you about a particular instance, though I think just when massive amounts of output scroll by it never lags, even dumping output from dd and such, I can't compare to Termite, I also don't care about tabs and prefer leaving that to a WM.

A few years ago I had a nice wsl1 setup on a laptop with vcXsrv for X and I created a PS script/desktop shortcut that started vcXsrv, then spawned a wsl that called Termite. I love Termite.. kinda urxvt’ish but much prettier/easier setup/config/customization. That terminal/setup was super super fast and very nice

Same, used a few different until I found termite and it did everything I sometimes struggled to get working on the other ones, with minimal config.

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