What's your favorite terminal?

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I'm looking for a new terminal. What's your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

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What stability issues have you encountered?

I can't remember all of them but now I have a weird issue that when I open Alacritty there's some loading going on in the background for quite a few seconds which I can even see on the cursor (I think it's "xdg" that's loading) and even reinstalling the system didn't help

Oh I think I know what you mean. Did you try setting your shell to something like sh instead of bash or zsh and see if it was a shell startup issue?

sh is just an alias for the default shell. And also idk how to set that

And your default shell is a POSIX compliant shell, usually dash or ash, so that's what I mean by sh. You can set it in ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml with:

[shell]
program = "/bin/sh"