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by dismalaf 574 days ago
Western config takes like 2 seconds. And out of the box it's pretty, easy to use and fast.

Also let's be real. All the default terminals are great and fast enough for typical use cases, the only ones that really care about GPU accelerated terminals are the ones that use editors in the terminal, so they're going to be customizing everything anyway.
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extr 574 days ago
Yes, absolutely. I personally use Wezterm. I also use the VS Code built-in terminal pretty heavily. Do I use it out of some ideological hard line against applications that require a login or cost money? No. Would I be open to a terminal application that made my life easier in some ways? Sure. I'm not sure they'll get my money, but it's pretty easy to imagine there would be a market for it.
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eviks 574 days ago
The config is in lua, so the potential for sinking time into customization is much higher
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dismalaf 573 days ago
The potential is there for sure, but to change font, theme, window decorations and most other "basic" configuration is 1 line apiece. But yeah, Lua is a full programming language so you could go off the deep end. But default behaviour is so good I doubt most people will spend more than 5 minutes customizing it.
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