What’s everyone’s favorite terminal app right now? (Currently running Ubuntu 20.04)

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  • extraterm

    The swiss army chainsaw of terminal emulators

  • There aren't many terminals on Linux much are aiming at iTerm2. At lot of popular terminals follow a minimalist philosophy where features are considered frivolous and a sign of newbie-ness. Personally, I'm not into that which is why I continue to work on my own terminal Extraterm with a maximalist approach. iTerm2 is a great piece of software and something I take a degree of inspiration from.

  • urxvt-tabbedex

    Tabbed plugin for rxvt-unicode with many enhancements

  • rxvt-unicode + tabbedex

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  • tldr

    📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

  • Is remembering what to type into the shell too hard? Look up the command line examples from TL;DR pages from inside Extraterm and have it paste them in directly.

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