Best terminal emulator for Linux: kitty, Ghostty and more
kitty, Ghostty, foot, Alacritty and WezTerm compared on what a rice needs: Wayland, tabs and splits, images, ligatures, config and themes, with a pick by setup.
Jonah Pelletier
Editor and lead writer
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Jonah Pelletier is a backend developer who has used Linux as his only desktop for fourteen years and has kept his dotfiles in a public repository for most of them. He went from Openbox to i3 to Hyprland, and broke his config often enough along the way to start writing down what fixed it.
As editor he writes the Desktops, Terminal, Editors, Dotfiles and Linux sections and looks after the Generator’s config templates. Every guide shows the config, the version it was written against and what breaks it.
~/authors/jonah-pelletier ls -t
Articles.
How to change the colorscheme in Neovim
Try a scheme with :colorscheme, install it with vim.pack, lazy.nvim or LazyVim, make it stick in init.lua, and match Neovim to the palette of your terminal.
How to manage dotfiles with GNU Stow
Keep configs in a git repo and let Stow link them into place: dry runs, tree folding, conflicts and --adopt, secrets kept out, and a rebuild on a new machine.
ls -t | tail -n 47 guides
- ~/guides/desktops
How to rice Linux: a first-rice checklist
9 min - ~/guides/desktops
How to set up multiple monitors in sway
7 min - ~/guides/desktops
Hyprland vs sway vs niri vs i3: which tiling WM to pick
7 min - ~/guides/linux
Wayland vs X11 for ricing: what changes and what to use
9 min