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minus-squareMax-P@lemmy.max-p.melinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoI found my terminal speed to not matter when most of what I do with it is over SSH administrating various boxes. Probably matters more for riced up vim users and TUI fans since you need a lot of responsiveness.
minus-squarethingsiplay@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoI am a Vim user and TUI fan. It does not make any difference in my experience to use a fast GPU based terminal. Maybe something like st might startup faster, but that’s it.
minus-squareechindod@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoI can tell the difference in a JavaScript terminal and a native one, but yeah. Urxvt is fast enough. So is the gnome terminal
I found my terminal speed to not matter when most of what I do with it is over SSH administrating various boxes.
Probably matters more for riced up vim users and TUI fans since you need a lot of responsiveness.
I am a Vim user and TUI fan. It does not make any difference in my experience to use a fast GPU based terminal. Maybe something like st might startup faster, but that’s it.
I can tell the difference in a JavaScript terminal and a native one, but yeah. Urxvt is fast enough. So is the gnome terminal