[Rogach]

I moved to alacritty from gnome-terminal.

Wasn't for latency or throughput - I didn't notice any difference in latency, and difference in throughput is only visible when cat'ing 3MB of text.

However, for me the selling point was a text config file, which I can edit, backup, or store in git (unlike gnome-terminal, where customization was done either in GUI or in gconf, and while it's also text files somewhere they are difficult to work with).

[Piraty]

I prefer xfce4-terminal for exactly this reason. https://github.com/Piraty/dotfiles/blob/3203d78/.config/xfce...

[plandis]

Version controlled config was why I started using it too!