xterm
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Nov 12, 2025first mention
Oct 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Starting it with the wm keybinds is as snappy as opening a new Firefox tab.”
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“I'll happily keep using alacritty, konsole and xterm”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
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- Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours 1 mention
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- Linux Terminal Memory Usage 1 mention
- The terminal of the future 1 mention
Data: xterm.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“It's xterm on OpenBSD, konsole on Fedora KDE, terminal.app on MacOS”
“I do care about xterm and tmux.”
“Starting it with the wm keybinds is as snappy as opening a new Firefox tab.”
For every query and commands. I don’t use a DE, so pretty much everything is cli based. I use xterm and it’s bound to mod4+Return for me.
“Slightly surprised that xterm doesn't top the chart on the picom category.”
“I'll happily keep using alacritty, konsole and xterm”