Speaking of slow, what I absolutely cannot comprehend is why ghostty is so popular. Despite being written in Zig it is very slow and a total CPU and memory hog. Just sitting there idle it’s pulling a constant 40% of my CPU? No thanks!
In terms of speed, same thing: if you can provide some kind of objectively measurable thing, we can look into it. Everything we've measured so far firmly places Ghostty in the "fast" camp (with friends such as Kitty).
We're sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but in any case not noticeably so. You wouldn't pick Ghostty vs Kitty for example for performance, it'd be something else. But you would pick Ghostty over say... iTerm2 for performance (but you may pick iTerm2 for features, its extremely feature rich!).
You need to figure out what is going on because that certainly isn't normal.
Literally seeing 0.0% on Linux
I can't understand Ghostty either except as some kind of trendy memetic thing, the $GME of the TTY world.
I started using it expecting to love it, but in reality it didn't seem to gain me anything but in fact was worse in several major ways. Also less configurable than Iterm2. :/