petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoGhostty 1.0 Released, A New GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulatorlinuxiac.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down110cross-posted to: linux@lemmy.worldgnome@discuss.tchncs.de
arrow-up1225arrow-down1external-linkGhostty 1.0 Released, A New GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulatorlinuxiac.competsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square76fedilinkcross-posted to: linux@lemmy.worldgnome@discuss.tchncs.de
minus-squareReversalHatchery@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agook but such a sensational announcement like this suggests that before (and without) gpu acceleration the program was noticeably slow for some reason
minus-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoScrolling through a large text with colours and higher unicode characters (tailing a log with colour coding, for instance) can be a bit slow with Gnome’s terminal in my experience. In Alacritty (and on a machine with a GPU) it’s not.
ok but such a sensational announcement like this suggests that before (and without) gpu acceleration the program was noticeably slow for some reason
Scrolling through a large text with colours and higher unicode characters (tailing a log with colour coding, for instance) can be a bit slow with Gnome’s terminal in my experience. In Alacritty (and on a machine with a GPU) it’s not.