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brcmthrowaway • today at 1:44 AM • 7 replies • view on HN

What's better, iTerm2 or Ghostty?


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dmerrick • today at 2:13 AM

iTerm2 has way more features and configuration options

Ghostty is simpler and faster

goodmythical • today at 2:47 AM

What's better? Only works for some or works for anyone?

loeg • today at 1:52 AM

What's better, an apple or an orange?

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turadg • today at 2:51 AM

I used iTerm2 until I noticed that Ghostty’s New Tab opens at the current working directory.

Haven’t gone back since.

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olavgg • today at 9:32 AM

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sick_of_slop • today at 2:08 AM

I think Ghostty is great for the most part but I keep going back to iTerm2, personally.

iTerm just feel less buggy. For example I was running Claude in a container the other day and the slash command complete wasn’t rendering properly with Ghostty but worked perfectly fine with iTerm.

I want to switch to Ghostty because I prefer how simple Ghostty is overall and I think the project itself is very cool and an important piece of software (libghostty) but it doesn’t quite get there for _for my use cases_.