 Everybody welcome back to the channel today. We're going to be talking a little bit about my favorite terminal emulator, so Everyone has their favorite terminal emulator some of them some people like ST some people like, you know You are XVT some people like Alacrity some people like kitty. I mean there's just tons and tons of these things some people like you know, I'm terminal you crazy people so your terminal emulators very much It's very much a Personal preference. It's not it's like your favorite brand of shoes or the favorite car you want to drive, you know, everyone has their brand you know, so When I say terminal Termite is the best terminal emulator. I'm saying that because it's it's my personal favorite So there are few just a few reasons why so let's take a look at Termite here. We just switch screens. This is termite. It looks like a terminal emulator. I don't know what you're really expecting It's not anything, you know, there's no fancy effects or anything like something crazy that has them You know animations or whatever. It's just a terminal emulator. So There are a couple things that made me make me enjoy this over other ones. First of all all the Features you want are built directly and so unlike something like ST. This is ST right here Unlike something like ST That has to have patches and stuff in order to do simple things like scroll up with your mouse You can scroll up by default in termite, which is great And that's that's more comparing termite and ST because most terminal terminal emulators have the ability to do all these Things built in and don't need to be patched the next reason is How fast it is so Termite is not the fastest terminal emulator that goes to Audacity not audacity. Um, Lackardy. This is a Lackardy and as you can tell I don't actually have this configured properly But if we do a time neo fetch oops Let's see. This is it didn't about two point point two to one six and time neo fetch And did it two point? Oh Look at this termite beat it this time It doesn't always beat it, but it's very very close and everybody if you listen to like distra tube or I Think Bernie Robertson that also uses Lackardy and calls it the fastest one termite is very very close. Sometimes it's a little slower Sometimes it's not and this is a very you know on scientific tests. It's just neo fetch. It's just I mean I think neo fetch is a bad script, but I know it um It's fast is the point and and that kind of leads me to the that I mean the biggest thing at the reason why I like Termite is that the configuration file is way better than any other one than I know so if we see didn't first let's zoom in here clear that CD into dot config termite and Just do ls and then config This is the config file. We'll just zoom out just a little bit. Here's a so big Literally this config configuration file is 87 lines if we Open up another one and look at the the Lackardy config so cd that config Lackardy. Oops dumbass Can't do that just a little Lackardy and we go down here This is actually 584 lines now It's looks like nonsense because I'm zoomed in so far But I mean and some of those are gonna be comments obviously But there's a big difference between a configuration file that's 87 lines and a configuration file That's 584 lines. It's this I wouldn't go so far as to call Termite suckless because that would be not true But it's definitely more minimal than something like Lackardy Which is considered the fastest terminal on terminal emulator And another thing termite is not like GPU Reliant or whatever like Lackardy will actually offload some of the processing power to To your GPU and that might be good for like Different operations like moving big large big big large files They're very good met Moving large files between one place and another or you're running certain scripts or whatnot And in that case maybe Lackardy does be something like termite. I don't know I don't do those kind of operations For the most part But I've never noticed termite being slow and I like the fact that the configuration file is Just you know more minimal now There is an argument to be made that termite is just not as Extendable as something like Lackardy is because like Lackardy you can go through and You know create your own custom key bindings for like a Vim mode or whatever And that's great But if you don't use those things it becomes kind of you know, it's a perfluous So I mean, I feel like I'm picking on a dusty a little bit here But I mean the same can be had for like SD. So if we if I look at ST's Thing here and remember ST hasn't been patched in my system at all other than the colors We get out of this CD up a level into suckless ST and then config.def.h this one here is 477 lines now you got to remember that is probably that's the direct code so it's not really fair to compare them but It's something that suckless has all these things that are you know is so much more now again Suckless is way more extensible than termite is I think but if you don't use that extensibility then You know, it's just a waste and I don't I'm a big terminal user, but I don't seem to care about all the extra cool whizbang features like I Don't use any Keybindings in my terminal at all. I probably should learn some of them And maybe I will someday and if that's the case maybe termite won't be the thing I use But if you're just looking for a minimal terminal emulator, I think Termite is the best one that you can choose. I mean like this. I said this is 87 lines and There's at least what close to 23 lines here that could just be completely removed Let's do that and see what it is. I'm just kidding Yeah, see now we're at 67 lines and that's and I still have some comments in it so I mean It's a minimal terminal emulator and it's fast and it's I mean it may not be as customizable as you know every other terminal emulator, but if you're just like I said if you're just looking for something that's minimal and that will work and Is very easy to configure. I Think terminal emulate the termite one termite termite terminal emulator is the best that you can choose So that was a very quick video I hope you liked it if you did hit the thumbs up if you didn't hit the thumbs down and hit the subscribe button to make sure that You don't miss any of our cool and awesome videos because our videos are cool and awesome. It's scientific fact I mean seriously it just is all right, so In the in the comments, I have a challenge for you. I want to know what terminal emulator you use Do you use ST? Do you use termite? Maybe maybe there are fellow fans of termite doctor? I'd love to hear why you like termite Maybe you are a big X term guy. I mean I've never met anybody who actually uses X term as their default terminal emulator But I would love to talk to you if so so let me know in the comments what you use. Thanks for watching We'll see you next time