[Philipp__]

No terminal is on par with iTerm. I was using Linux and *BSD for years, used many terminals, and of all iTerm is bread and butter (and with that font rendering and retina screen, nothing comes close). I would recommend to evaluate your needs, but be objective! If you can live with 16GB of RAM (I can, I do not do anything that would require me to use 32GB of RAM) then buy last year model. I have it, amazing machine.

And maybe it would be better to hold on to your MBP, and buy Chromebook, at least to test the water with Linux (or whatever OS you want to use). Install them on small machine, setup few essential programs to you and use them for few weeks. Why am I telling you this? Well I really appreciate some things on macOS, which will keep me glued to it for few more years at least. (iTerm is one of those things)

[acchow]

I use iTerm daily but I don't think I get it. What makes iTerm so great?

[Philipp__]

After I used many of dated terminals, everything from xterm to urxvt (was ok), to more modern ones like termite (this one I liked very minimal), I really appreciated everything about iTerm. The amount of GUI customization is insane, plus you can configure everything about from key bindings to mouse, arrangement, etc etc. I really liked it how it doesn't get in your way. Splits are amazing, it is the only terminal where clipboard has worked perfectly with tmux,zsh,vim/emacs combo out of the box. I was really impressed how little configuration it required.

[threeseed]

It's just a really solid app that is constantly updated.

Very fast, beautifully rendered text, tabs/profiles/split screen are well implemented etc.

[mcjiggerlog]

What exactly is it that makes you think iTerm is so good? I've started using a MBP after years on ubuntu and I don't think which terminal I am using makes much difference. All I am going to do is open tmux anyway.

[Philipp__]

I commented above. Ascetics wise macOS has better font rendering. (A lot of nice community made themes for iTerm too). But clipboard works flawlessly out of the box with tmux/zsh/vim/emacs, TrueColor support is awesome too, splits and tabs are amazing and work nice (I know that tmux has something similar to offer, but I really like tabs in iTerm, and I use it in combination with tmux). Amount of customization is staggering really, and app overall always performs well, no latency or lag whatsoever, and is really stable too. While on Ubuntu things were crashing, a lot!

[mananvaghasiya]

You should checkout hyper https://hyper.is/

[Philipp__]

Why should I, iTerm is native app, this is JS.

[trm42]

KTerm of KDE is quite similar to iTerm2. Using them both bot not that much iTerm's special features.