It's a very fast terminal but has some graphical artifacts in vim for me with integrated terminal.
I use alacritty now. I also used wezterm for a while, it's really good but feels slower.
Overall we are spoiled with choice. :)
I use alacritty now. I also used wezterm for a while, it's really good but feels slower.
Overall we are spoiled with choice. :)
I was trying to have a Windows/Linux machine on the cheap for the occasional cross-platform project. However, if you're doing serious work, you'll be happier with a nice laptop. (Except I don't know where you'd find a retina laptop outside of Apple)
I was confident I'd be fine though, I set it up in advance and used it briefly on the couch with a tiny monitor for about a week.
I strongly recommend taking advantage of the USB HDD boot that's now supported on Pi 4 -- even some 15 year old 60GB spinning platter you have lying around from a long dead laptop is in my experience going to be faster than an SD card. USB3 to SATA connectors are cheap and reliable.
The reason I did it was just trying not to be wasteful. My laptop died and I have no problem getting a new one, but I'm pretty sure I'll need a new one in a year for work -- the problem is I won't know the specifications (even OS, architecture, etc.) that I'll need until then, so I just wanted to see if I could get away without having to guess in advance. Generally I like to buy only when I need to, and to buy the best thing available at that time (within reason), and use that for a long time.
These days there are vendors releasing laptops with 90hz refresh rate OLED screens, 2k and 4k resolution even, on the 14" and the 16" ones. Asus for example has that on their ZenBook and their VivoBook series.