Currently: foot

Especially for the server mode and the resulting fast startup of footclient.

iterm2 is near perfect on macOS, for Linux I usually use Alacritty or Foot

konsole with tmux

I’ve tried a lot of them over the whole history of Linux, but what I use now is kitty.

I like Terminator,
for it’s ability to split one terminal window into as much as you want:
https://gnome-terminator.org/

In combination with Fish shell,
for it’s auto completion + syntax highlighting:
https://fishshell.com/

And lastly, BobTheFish,
a nice git-aware powerline theme to go along with it:
https://github.com/oh-my-fish/theme-bobthefish

VT2. Sometimes 3.

I’m on the Alacritty/Tmux/ZSH train. Haven’t any issues, other than font scaling differences between laptop and desktop UW monitor.

I don’t have one specific as my favorite anymore and currently use Konsole from KDE. If you like tinkering with files and want it highly customizable through configuration files instead a gui, then probably Kitty is the best (and the closest to being my favorite). Alacritty is also a good one, but its quite simple and lacks some features in my opinion. I didn’t try too many, but these 3 are the top three I would consider using in the feature future.

I’ve used Alacritty for a long time, but I am looking to switch since they moved to TOML for their config file. The migration they advertised did not work, and looking for some sample files took me to a GitHub issue thread where the devs are just… dicks. It was rather easy to write a new config file from scratch, but their attitude is just ridiculous.

Terminator and zsh shell with oh my zsh

https://medium.com/@ferhatsukrurende/terminator-zsh-ohmyzsh-58ba4303bd09

ADM-3A for beauty and the vim keys.

TRS-80 DT-1 for weirdness.

IBM 5251 for beam spring keys.

DEC VT320 because library nostalgia.

XFCE-Terminal. Small, lightweight, Wayland if you use it and plenty of config without cryptic dotfiles.

Well I’ll throw in my endorsement for kitty. I like the ligature support, the fact that it can be configured to hide all UI, and it uses text files for configuration that I can put in my dot files repo.

There are some particular features that I use constantly:

I can yank a file path to the prompt from previous output by pressing ctrl+shift+p then f then a 1-character label. I can do the same with a git hash (or other hash) by pressing h instead of f.

I can scroll back and search previous output using only the keyboard with ctrl+shift+h which puts the terminal history in a pager.

I can get the output of only the previous command in a pager with ctrl+shift+g. Or jump to previous prompts with ctrl+shift+x and ctrl+shift+z.

I use kitty-scrollback.nvim which replaces that pager with neovim so I can use all of my editor features to search history, copy what I want, etc.

I like Konsole.

It comes with KDE, supports tabs, themes, and loads very fast.

I don’t really need more from a terminal than that. When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij (previously I used tmux).

Mine is yakuake simply because it’s a drop down one so it integrates well into my desktop.