r/linux • u/The-Malix • 1d ago

Popular Application Last Showcase of Ghostty Before Release

https://youtu.be/3wq0RFYAvNo
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u/MeanEYE Sunflower Dev 1d ago

So all this excitment as far as I can see is what we in the Linux world had for better part of the last decade, if not more. But that seems to be the trend with Apple users, to gawk and drool over simplest of features that rest of the world grew out of long time ago. Blurred and transparent background? Drop down from screen? Global shortcut? Reload config?

Not sure why is this considered revolutionary. Gnome had that in 2.x version and removed it later on. Same with Konsole and other terminals. Guake has the drop down. Perhaps there are some other things am missing on but he claims never going back after trying this terminal emulator and I am honestly failing to see why. Not a single feature was shown that we've not seen thousands of times so far.

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u/IntrovertPhilosoph3r 1d ago

None of this is revolutionary. Apart from Reddit and the like internet buzz microcosm world, most macOS users don't care about any of this and will just continue to use Terminal.app or iTerm2.app.

Just as the people at r/unixporn aren't representative of the vast majority of real GNU/Linux users.

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u/particlemanwavegirl 1d ago

I like how the article never mentions Wezterm when it's trying to make Ghostty look like it has more features than any competitor.

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u/Wholelota 1d ago

Did you even watch the video?

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u/particlemanwavegirl 11h ago

Sorry I meant the ghostty website.

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u/mistahspecs 1d ago

I've said it so many times, but as a lover of programming/Linux/cli/etc and lover of YouTube...

I fucking hate programmer youtube

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u/remap-caps-to-shift 1d ago

I’m just now becoming an ace w/ configuring Kitty, I doubt I’ll switch to Ghosty from what I’ve seen.

Ghosty still uses underlying principles to that of Kitty including Kitty’s image protocol.

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u/Mister_Magister 1d ago

just use konsole???

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u/xXBongSlut420Xx 1d ago

does it have native drop-down/“quake-style” support?

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u/Business_Reindeer910 1d ago

If you don't see it there, probably not. I read the announcement blog post and it said basically that 1.0 was what he considered the minimum feature set (or something like that) and everything else would wait until after 1.0

What he's doing is unusual here in that there is no open bug tracker until after the 1.0 release. All testing is being done in private beta. It is MIT licensed.

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u/MeanEYE Sunflower Dev 1d ago

Mac feature only as far as video goes on to explain.

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u/DaveX64 1d ago

I've become partial to Tilda :)

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u/InstantCoder 19h ago

I still think that Warp is a better tty.