Ghostty: My new terminal and how to install on Debian 12

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=== Contents of this Video ===
0:00 - Intro
1:55 - Why?
2:55 - Bash script
5:27 - Ghostty
17:38 - Outtro

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Distro: Debian 12 Bookworm (Stable)

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[MikePiligrim]

Let's take a moment and appreciate how practical and straightforward all Drew's tutorials happen to be. That might seem small, but in fact that's really so helpful for someone who is a few steps behind yet shares similar passion.
All roads lead to Debian. Piece!

[donaldwilliams]

Glad you like it too. it's pretty nice and will get better I agree though well documented and logical Great video Thanks for the script I am adding it to my debian setups

[KerboOnYT]

Nice script. Thanks for putting that together and sharing.

[Marcelo-rjll]

Hi there, installed over here using your script, thanks for sharing. Cheers.

[anirbellahcen]

I use LMDE6 so I couldn't install Ghostty without your help. Thank you sir.

[brice.rhodes]

The first time being slow to compile is very normal, zig is downloading all of the dependencies and their dependencies. After that ghostty build time is much much faster

[donaldwilliams]

Re: Change theme. There are some updates that require a restart of GHOSTTY to become effective

[TrustJesusToday]

I did run into a haskell update issue when updating my (Arch-based) distro. I really liked ghostty; it was awesome for a week or so. Kitty and gnome-terminal are fine for now until I can solve this haskell puzzle.

[digital-activity]

Yeah, ghostty is very good software. As everything else from mr. Hashimoto

[darkbash-fm]

terminator is still the best. Highlight active panes, transparent backgrounds, blur background using blur-my shell gnome extension and supports quake mode and all of the features plus alot more including plugins.

[intermarer]

How can you live with the mouse being 23 fps? It's horrible even to watch 😅Anyways, thanks for the video!

[drxxx]

Can you make script and maybe video for xfwm4-standalone install?

[Xaito]

I don't get the hype. Everyone is glazing ghostty but I just couldn't find any feature I needed while it has a large memory footprint. I was expecting a revelation but was disappointed. I instead installed ST with like 2 extra patches and run it at somewhere around 10x less memory waste
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[snn]

I already abandoned ghostty... It's quite buggy tbh

[clarity]

It's frustrating because Ghostty is libadwaita and libadwaita doesn't match desktops that aren't GNOME.