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by nickjj 2603 days ago
I gave up on Hyper about 8 months ago after only using it for a few weeks.

2.1 was close to unusable on Windows. Major prompt / cursor bugs (it would disappear all the time), ~200ms input latency (but a terminal's only job is to make typing feel awesome) and it took 5 seconds+ to open on an SSD. I reported a number of those issues but the maintainers didn't even respond even though people were commenting that it was a problem for them too.

Since then I've moved to wsltty for WSL and it's great when combined with tmux. Lightning fast with all of the terminal features you could ever want thanks to tmux (separate windows (ie. tabs), split panes, buffer searching and session saving / restoring). Close to zero input latency too as of wsltty 3.0.0.
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timdorr 2603 days ago
Windows Terminal was just released yesterday, which might be a good option for you. It's even open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
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nickjj 2603 days ago
Unfortunately that terminal requires an insider's version of Windows to run.

Enabling insiders means MS will track a bunch of data about you besides anonymous metrics and you can't opt out of it because insiders requests that info.

WSL v2 and / or that terminal sounds good but it may not be until Oct 2019 or Apr 2020 before the stable Windows channel sees it. They tend to release 2 major updates a year and if WSL v2 is only being released in June 2019 for insiders it's quite the push to have it ready by Oct 2019 for stable.

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dmix 2603 days ago
> Enabling insiders means MS will track a bunch of data about you besides anonymous metrics and you can't opt out of it because insiders requests that info.

As much as Microsoft tries to change it still remains the same...

So much for developers.

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yboris 2603 days ago
Hyper is all I use on Mac OS but on Windows I had some trouble with it so I started using Terminus - https://github.com/Eugeny/terminus

Looking forward to trying out Hyper 3 on Windows when I get home :)

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nickjj 2603 days ago
I tried Terminus too. I compared a whole bunch of terminals a while back at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/conemu-vs-hyper-vs-terminus-v...

I have no intention of ever using Hyper again but I did attempt to install 3.0.0 to see if anything improved just from a pure curiosity standpoint.

After running the setup program, it opens a green rectangle that animates. I can only assume that's the installer, except it doesn't let you customize where it gets installed to or anything like that. After 5 full minutes of animating without ever providing a UI hint that it's doing something (on an SSD), I killed the task. I guess I'll never know!

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rahilwazir 2603 days ago
Lol
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