I'm not the commenter, but for me ghostty was good for being a Very Good terminal experience with almost no config required.
replyJust checked and the config file for my daily use terminal setup is 3 lines long. 3! That means I know I can chuck it on any system, any clean re-install, and it'll be Fine. That counts for a lot when you've grown tired of endless config tweaking.
Same. Almost everything works out of the box, with great defaults.
replySame for me.
replyMy config is a couple lines longer, but other than font-family, font-size, color theme and a couple of other settings I didn't need to change anything else.
I definitely spent way less time configuring it to suit my needs that I did with any other terminal I used before.
Seconded. I keep hearing about ghostty but I have yet to see a strong enough justification about how it is _that_ better. I use konsole and has significantly more user friendly screen to manage settings. I heard about ghostty's performance so I did some timing tests and ghostty was faster than konsole but not that much - not in any perceptibly significant measurable sense.
replyI went from Alacritty to Ghostty for ligatures and some other small goodies. I could probably get those same goodies with Kitty, but I didn't want to try nor have the desire to try. I may go back to Alacritty if I grow tired of Ghostty.
replyI've always found ligatures (fi, ff, ffi etc) really ugly. Or are you talking about using them for hacked purposes (-> in C)?
replyThen again I don't put different foods on my fork when eating - which seems relevant.
I never got the speed thing. Ghostty at least seems slower on my machine compared to foot(client).
replySplits can have different font sizes
replylibghostty is a bigger contribution, it's being embedded left and right.
replyi switched from iTerm 2 on macOS because it would get bogged down sometimes or occasionally lag. it’s been noticeably faster and i appreciate the file-based config as well as the defaults, leading to my config being under 5 lines.
replyon linux i use the default terminal in gnome which is ptyxis now iirc and haven’t felt any need to switch.
Don't you miss the crazy configuration options that iterm2 has?
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