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akdkfe223 commented on Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator github.com/contour-termin... · Posted by u/ingve

bash runs on windows

akdkfe223 · 2 years ago

Feels a little bit misleading to say that honestly. It runs on windows in what is effectively a chroot/jail/container esque monstrosity. I personally consider that to qualify as a totally separate userspace and therefore not the same operating system as one would assume when you use the term windows without any additional qualifiers.

akdkfe223 commented on Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator github.com/contour-termin... · Posted by u/ingve

bloopernova · 2 years ago

I was going to comment something similar. I use iTerm2 day to day for work, and gnome-terminal on my personal Linux box.

What's a compelling reason to switch terminals? Or maybe: is there a compelling reason not to switch?

akdkfe223 · 2 years ago

It depends what kinds of things you find compelling but I would guess probably nothing if you haven't already been sucked into the terminal emulator rabbit hole. iTerm2 and gnome terminal are both perfectly functional for 100% of the tasks you will actually need them for.

akdkfe223 commented on Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator github.com/contour-termin... · Posted by u/ingve

akdkfe223 · 2 years ago

Does anybody know if it's actually fast in terms of low latency? I personally don't care about GPU acceleration or any of those things that Alacritty and others claim makes them fast when the latency is noticeably worse than older non accelerated emulators.

akdkfe223 commented on Moving Marginalia to a new server marginalia.nu/log/90-new-... · Posted by u/marginalia_nu

akdkfe223 · 2 years ago

Thank you for your hard work on this site! Probably my favorite find on hacker news of the 2020s so far.

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