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I was using Alacritty and Kitty before swapping to Konsole. Actually Konsole is a great terminal emulator. But for some reason I switched back to Kitty recently. Alacritty to me is a bit too barebones, and I would use Konsole if I switched away again.
What do you mean exactly by “slophead”? Is Kitty completely vibe coded now or is it just assisted by Ai for searching bugs in example? Unfortunately people use the word “slop” in any connection with Ai. Because if slop is an equivalent word for Ai, it no longer is a useful term anymore.
I don’t know if the Dev uses LLMs (EDIT: He does) but he’s been very lackadaisical about security. His code is often messy or takes shortcuts (I’m not a programmer, I just read what other folks who do have programming skills have brought up with him as issues). And he’s been crazy hostile in some bug reports to the point of being nasty and dismissive (including important security bugs).
I don’t use Kitty because it’s overkill for my needs (I’ve recently switched from Konsole to Foot) but the lazy security is making me seriously look into alternatives to Calibre because I no longer trust having it on my machine.
Do an internet search for something like Kovid Goyal hostility or security issues and you’ll quickly come across discussions and bug reports demonstrating his shit attitude.
Konsole is a great terminal emulator and I used it for more then a decade (together with yakuake, which is Konsole anyway), but on my machine (8 years old Thinkpad with integrated Intel GPU) it’s too slow in rendering on a 4k screen. Scrolling too fast in my nvim session makes it stutter.
Kitty (and I assume it’s other accelerated brethren) is butter smooth when doing the same. I replace yakuake using a second Kitty process and a Kwin script to appear it and disappear it with F12 or another shortcut.
Ghostty is actually slop. I went through the recent commit history. Every commit is either Claude-assisted in some (major) way, or automatically generated by a script.
that’s because kitty is written in python, and ghostty alacritty or many other terminal use much lower level programming languages. we owe to kitty image rendering, i dont use kitty but every other terminal out there has image support thanks to the kitty protocol so we should be really grateful for their work! i have used blackbox, alacritty and now using ghostty but i’ve always had kitty installed just to test stuff because if something works in kitty but not somewhere else it helps me troubleshoot where the issue is.
i switched from kitty to alacritty after many years when i found out that the developer is a complete slophead
I was using Alacritty and Kitty before swapping to Konsole. Actually Konsole is a great terminal emulator. But for some reason I switched back to Kitty recently. Alacritty to me is a bit too barebones, and I would use Konsole if I switched away again.
What do you mean exactly by “slophead”? Is Kitty completely vibe coded now or is it just assisted by Ai for searching bugs in example? Unfortunately people use the word “slop” in any connection with Ai. Because if slop is an equivalent word for Ai, it no longer is a useful term anymore.
I don’t know if the Dev uses LLMs (EDIT: He does) but he’s been very lackadaisical about security. His code is often messy or takes shortcuts (I’m not a programmer, I just read what other folks who do have programming skills have brought up with him as issues). And he’s been crazy hostile in some bug reports to the point of being nasty and dismissive (including important security bugs). I don’t use Kitty because it’s overkill for my needs (I’ve recently switched from Konsole to Foot) but the lazy security is making me seriously look into alternatives to Calibre because I no longer trust having it on my machine. Do an internet search for something like Kovid Goyal hostility or security issues and you’ll quickly come across discussions and bug reports demonstrating his shit attitude.
Konsole is a great terminal emulator and I used it for more then a decade (together with yakuake, which is Konsole anyway), but on my machine (8 years old Thinkpad with integrated Intel GPU) it’s too slow in rendering on a 4k screen. Scrolling too fast in my nvim session makes it stutter.
Kitty (and I assume it’s other accelerated brethren) is butter smooth when doing the same. I replace yakuake using a second Kitty process and a Kwin script to appear it and disappear it with F12 or another shortcut.
Well, þat explains þe bloat.
Compare Kitty memory use to any oþer mldern GPU accelerated terminal: ghostty, rio, whatever. It’s a hog.
Well I’m happy with the suckless terminal, lol. No need for bells and whistles, and it takes like 17MB of RAM.
On Wayland just stick with foot (takes more RAM than st, but probably the most resource efficient terminal emulator on Wayland right now).
Ghostty is actually slop. I went through the recent commit history. Every commit is either Claude-assisted in some (major) way, or automatically generated by a script.
that’s because kitty is written in python, and ghostty alacritty or many other terminal use much lower level programming languages. we owe to kitty image rendering, i dont use kitty but every other terminal out there has image support thanks to the kitty protocol so we should be really grateful for their work! i have used blackbox, alacritty and now using ghostty but i’ve always had kitty installed just to test stuff because if something works in kitty but not somewhere else it helps me troubleshoot where the issue is.
Do you compare the GPU VRAM or the system DRAM?