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I have been using Kitty for a while now because I heard it's fast and one of the cool terminals, but other than working without issue (which is good, of course), I really don't perceive any difference than if I had continued to use the Gnome terminal.

Terminal ricing is really a thing I will never understand, unfortunately. It's good and it works, but I wouldn't miss it if I had to use a less hyped terminal.

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The biggest thing for me is keypress latency. Most other terminals have a slight delay between keypress and response. When I’m doing things like a bunch of quick commands in nvim, it can be enough to distract me.

Kitty is about instant, same with the default macOS Terminal.app. But kitty supports a few more features that I use heavily like nerd fonts, and just has better text rendering overall.

Yeah it’s not like I couldn’t work in another terminal, but my goodness it’s nice to have a tool that I use all day be as snappy and responsive as kitty

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