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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

A screencast cannot really capture that. Practically any terminal is fast enough to render a shitton of text quickly and "smoothly".

The difference in speed can only really be felt.

W.r.t. UI, it looks exactly like you'd expect a GTK4/adwaita terminal emulator to look.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

By "can only be felt" do you mean in the way it affects the performance of your system?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

No terminal emulator ever should affect the performance of the rest of your system.

I mean that totally w.r.t. how it feels to interact with the terminal emulator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Sorry, what does w.r.t. stand for?

No terminal emulator ever should affect the performance of the rest of your system.

No idea honestly, people are saying that certain heavy output programs might just slow down the execution of other graphics related processes because text is usually expensive to draw, haven't tried it myself