I keep seeing comments like this popping up on HN. Do you guys have some funky esoteric configs?
In my case, where I only changed the color scheme and font, the limiting factor when starting alacritty is how fast I can move my fingers to the i3 shortcut. And I'm not running this on some exotic, fast hardware, just your standard crappy corporate HP laptop from a few years ago.
The only time there was a noticeable lag was when my zsh config was borked.
However the absolute times are still probably not noticable unless you often cold-start terminals.
| Alacritty | Foot | Foot Client |
Absolute time (ms) | 99.0 | 37.2 | 22.8 |If it was an app I opened by pressing Super and typing “terminal”, I probably wouldn’t need the speed increase. But the shortcut is easily accessible from home row, so I press it often and quickly.