I'm ditching Alacritty. Here's why

Alacritty is a great terminal emulator. But there is a feature that I need from my terminal that alacritty didn't support. So I am switching my terminal emulator to a different one. Can you guess what feature I need, and what terminal I'm switching to? FIND OUT!

chapters:
0:00 - intro and why I want to switch
0:56 - what is kitty anyways?
1:35 - kitty looks like crap, let's fix that
5:04 - kitty looks great now, why are we switching again?
5:28 - showing off the killer kitty feature
6:11 - kitty is great, try it out!

[cat]

tl;dr: kitty supports showing images in the terminal while alacritty doesn't

[hankth]

I use fish inside of kitty for maximum cat-themed goodness.

[driden]

Next video: ditching Kitty for Wezterm.

We’ve all done it 😅

[CollinWilliams-bycs]

0:00 I'm calling it: Alacritty -> Kitty for Image support

[VoyivodaFTW]

you've been on fire lately. keep the new videos rolling.

[jeanclaudedusse]

Amazing video as always ... now all we need is a video about yazi :D

[resofactor]

YouTube popped this up as Recommended Video due to my Linux searches.
This is cool to know. Thanks for producing this one. Just Subscribed.

[halano]

Foot is best terminal :
- footclient start in 98 ms
- image rendering supported
- small memory fingerprint
- support emojis
- flexible
- fast

[ertwro]

I don’t care how much people say kitty is bloated. It has the best image protocol for terminals. In fact I patched ST terminal with the kitty protocol and I didn’t burst into flames. Is the best at the moment.

Ps: Rust is amazing for refactoring but just because something is written in rust is no instantaneous win.

[iduran]

How about Wezterm? Also written in Rust and is configured using Lua.

[rewindyourmind]

These videos always come out so timely, I just finished my configuring the foot terminal on my Arch machine for the same reason!

[stevemorgandev]

I’ve switched back and forth between these two terminals. Usually a little thing will annoy me enough. I forget exactly why I switched back to alacritty this last time. I just make sure I back up my configs with stow so that I can switch seamlessly when needed.

[aquepaique]

I use Kitty instead of wezterm because kitty feels smoother, no laggy when I scroll down. Also, wezterm consumes more ram.

[vaisakh_km]

i personally Worked with vhyrro to make a latex rendering lib for neovim to use in neorg, which uses kitty terminal graphics protocol.. such a cool protocol to work with (currently it's not used as hologram depricated)



though now i switched after 1y to foot terminal as i can feel the lag in kitty, which is much nicer and support images with sixel

[minecraftpufferfish]

I have switched from Alacritty to foot. It's BLAZING fast and it has image support. Kitty has font ligature support, but it's just noticeably slow; foot, on the other hand, opens faster than any other terminal emulator I've ever tried.

[amarug]

Kitty is the best for a desktop with a gpu, but if you are using a laptop mostly on battery, kitty isnt the best, its resource hungry. I actually just use the xfce4 term, it opens immediately and doesnt hog resources. Kitty takes literally like 1.5 seconds to open (which for a terminal is an eternity) and hogs ram, cpu etc.

[dgames]

typecraft, Do you think you could make a video comparing Kitty, wezterm and contour? It would be great to hear your opinion

[DEVDerr]

I like to think that you made the switch, because of my last comment on one of your videos haha :D
but seriously - good switch mate! I made the same switch 1 month ago and I'm enjoying kitty so far.
Also thanks for that `kittens` tip! I didn't know about that and it's amazing

[oglothenerd]

Something that Kitty must add for me to use it instead of Alacritty is the bright bold feature. Essentially, when text is bold, make it use the bright variant of the text color.

[davindersiwal]

Thanks for the video, kitty also supports pdf file view as well as scrolling