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For those that need an alternate (and cross-platform) terminal:

- alacritty - kitty

are decent alternatives I have found as a drop in replacement. Might need to add tmux if you were reliant on the window/pane management of iTerm2

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Why not just keep using iTerm2?

Benefits:

-You can keep using a terminal app you apparently like (understandably, it’s great)

-You don’t have to find and install a replacement

-You don’t have to re-add tmux

-Not actively enabling a new chat feature you don’t like costs very little time

Downsides:

-…

I installed https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html today after seeing those release notes and am liking it so far after adding the five-ish lines of config, which were way easier to use than those clunky panels

But why do you need to change? As the article says, this is entirely opt-in, and need you to supply your own API key if you want to use it. You choose the API URL, so you can even run ollama and never let it leave your machine.

Some people have principles, and that's ok.

I term has a killer feature that neither of suggested have - native control of tmux (tmux -CC).

For heavy tmux user it could be a deal breaker, especially given that kovid (kitty author) is hostile towards tmux.

What does the tmux integration actually do? I use tmux all the time on my mac all servers, but I remember I once tried the iterm integration and everything was very confusing and I turned it off. I just always start iterm, start or attach to existing tmux, and just have 1 tab open and use tmux normally. Then I sometimes open up other tabs, where I ssh into various servers and `tmux -a` to my session there.

What extra stuff do I get from this "tmux integration" ?

Just convenience. Instead of tmux panels and windows you get native macos windows, that you can manage with rectangle or any other app.

Eh, I'm really not a fan of iterm's tmux integration. It tries to do too much. I can't have my tmux statusbar (only the iterm one) and it really wants you to use iterm panes (and iterm commands to split them...). I like that my terminal config is mostly portable.

you don't wanna forget wezterm which has a nice lua scripting language that allows you to do tons of fun stuff, and is otherwise super-minimal as well. Also happens to run everywhere including Windows and BSD.

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