> Starting alacritty is kinda slow.

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.