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I used to use kitty, but its CPU usage was on the higher side on my laptop. I tried alacritty but the lack of tabs (after using kitty for a long time) was a deal-breaker. I'm currently using Wezterm[1], another rust-based terminal, which has tabs. It's worked great for me so far.

1. https://github.com/wez/wezterm

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by reading through the issues in Alacritty you realize that it's optimized for a very specific set of use cases, for example if you're using a tiling window manager you don't miss tabs at all (in fact they are an annoyance)

Or tmux.

Do you need tabs still if you use tmux by default?

No. I used to use tmux extensively when I was doing a lot of remote shell work, but I don't do that any more. For local work I'd still use tmux if there was no other option, but kitty spoiled me :-).

My favorite way to use tmux or et is with tabs in iTerm2.

I prefer a tab for each machine, including local, and then each tab has a tmux or ssh + tmux.

Just moved to kitty from iterm2 a few weeks ago.

Started with alacritty, but without tab support, was a deal-breaker for me.

I use tabs in kitty with tmux on each tab. Each tab is a context in my environment (dev/services/ansible/terraform/etc).

Yes, Kitty is too resource hungry for my taste as well. And the Alacritty devs outright refuse ligature support because all existing implementations are too low quality in their opinion.

So now I'm just using st with a ligature patch. Not perfect and rather slow when dumping a lot of text to stdout, but it's otherwise snappy and does everything I need.

I use tilix[0] - it has both tabs and split windows with excellent customization options (accessible via UI). It is quick and I haven't had any issues with it so far.

[0]: https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/

for some reason wezterm is very slow for me. I can see how neovim window is being drawn...

Same for me. I installed it and checked how long it would take to `echo` a million random strings. It was significantly slower than Kitty, so I stuck with the latter. Hope it improves, because I loved the approach!

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