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When comparing conhost vs QTerminal, the Slant community recommends QTerminal for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for UNIX-like systems?” QTerminal is ranked 20th while conhost is ranked 38th. The most important reason people chose QTerminal is:
QTerminal support font ligatures found in fonts like FiraCode.
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Pros
Pro Very fast
Pro Only terminal that can run Linux and Windows commands at the same time
Pro True color support
Pro Font ligatures
QTerminal support font ligatures found in fonts like FiraCode.
Pro Lightweight
Compared to many terminal emulators, QTerminal is lightweight with fewer dependencies than most.
Cons
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Con Window resize
Resizing the window does not resize the contents, like rxvt-unicode does.
Con Strange default paste action
When pasting into QTerminal, one has to be careful as it assumes immediate execution.