Alacritty, Konsole, or something else? Which terminal emulator do you recommend?

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So, Konsole shipped by default with KDE Plasma, my current Desktop Environment. While I don't have a problem with it, I am interested in what other people are using, because there very likely is something better out there.

Specifically I've seen talk of Kitty and Alacritty, although I've also read that the dev of Kitty is allegedly kind of a jerk, so I am specifically interested in how Konsole matches up to Alacritty in your experience, but other suggestions and general terminal emulator discussion are also welcome!

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Kitty, hands down. GPU accelerated; native image protocol implemented by ranger, neofetch, and more; incredibly customizable; multiplexing with multiple windows and tabs; ligature support; and much more

If anybody has any questions about it, swing on over to Kitty Terminal Emulator [!kittyterimal@midwest.social]

I have to ssh in to arbitrary systems often and Kitty seemed to have compatibility issues, which I still don't grok but plainly can't use

kitty requires its terminfo be set properly on the remote host. Its best to use the ssh kitten (I have it aliased), though it's only technically required the first time on any particular box/instance. See this issue in the FAQ: I get errors about the terminal being unknown or opening the terminal failing or functional keys like arrow keys don’t work?

I guess my issue is that these are production machines that aren't really meant to be mutated and I'm generally just pulling diagnostic data off of. Often I'm ssh'd in to a hub machine and jumping in to edge devices, so I couldn't run ssh kitten if I wanted to. I think I'm probably an edge case, but it is very frustrating.