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by sscarduzio 802 days ago
I appreciate the fine work done by developers and testers, however I've been using gnome-terminal for around two decades and never perceived the input latency.

Like, I installed Alacritty some years ago side-by-side with gnome-terminal, and gosh, I could not visually sense any difference. Do I have bad sight?
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sidkshatriya 802 days ago
Depends on how much time you've spent in a terminal over the last two decades. Do you do software development in a terminal or an IDE ?

If you develop in an IDE you don't "live" in a terminal and most likely it will not matter what terminal program you use and you won't notice latency.

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berkes 802 days ago
I live in my terminal.

Very occasionally (once a week or less) do I open VS code or so. The rest of the 8+ hours a day I spend in vim, zsh and such.

I don't perceive gnome-terminal as slow, or it's high latency. Alacritty did not show me any difference from gnome-terminal; other than that I needed to learn a lot of new stuff which I'm not going to do if there's no clear win. For me there was no clear win.

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