Gnome Terminal vs Konsole

Gnome Terminal integrates well into Gnome Desktop, as well as the rest of the core Gnome Shell apps.

The Gnome Terminal is usually very fast. It boots up very quickly and takes less than a second (averages to 0.25-0.59 seconds) to display files of up to 600 MB.

Gnome Terminal allows for the use of tabs by right clicking in the terminal window and selecting open new tab or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+t by default.

You can scroll up and down in Gnome terminal. And if you wish to do so, you can also hide the scrollbar.

Gnome Terminal comes with a solarized colorscheme installed and ready to use.

When using the GNOME Terminal, if you have long lines of text inside it and then you change the window, the text will also automatically update according to the new window size.

This isn't in the current release but in development versions you get notifications when commands are complete. This is great for long-running commands, relieving you from continuously checking to see if your command is done.

Configurable key bindings can be used for copy-paste, sending SIGINT, switching tabs, and so on.

We can change the alpha canal and see through the terminal.

Drop-down functionality can be added to Gnome Terminal via an extension.

Multiple terminals are managed from one gnome-terminal instance that takes up about 45 MB. Adding on other instances (with 10k lines of used buffer), each terminal requires about 16 MB of memory.

Tilix used to surpass gnome-terminal but right now they are both the best options unless you have special needs.

Konsole can bookmark ssh and telnet sessions, directories, and it can open tabs in a folder for easy access.

Konsole supports split-view which splits the window into two (or more) konsole instances. This is very useful for people who work a lot on the terminal and don't want to spend time navigating between different windows or tabs.

Konsole supports true color and smooth font. This made konsole more fanstatic than other terminal emulators.

Konsole can be embedded into desktop so it's always easily accessible, but not in the way of other windows.

By going to file > save output, you can send all screen output to a text file.

Konsole can be accessed by pressing F4 in Dolphin, which is convenient for when the user needs to open the terminal in a particular spot of the file structure.

Most terminals in Linux don't support font ligature, while many modern fonts such as PragmataPro or Fira Code already have decent coverage of font ligature. Support for font ligature makes user experience and font management much easier (i.e. you don't need to keep two copies of the same font just to use in the console)

Users can associate each bookmark or SSH session with a custom icon, thus giving a visual hint to quickly identify a tab when a lot of tabs are open.

In particular solarized.

Konsole can monitor activities and notify the user through system notifications when a certain activity happens. This is a very customizable feature too: you can write scripts that can use this feature and notify you for whatever you want.

Konsole is usually very fast. It boots up very quickly and takes less than a second (averages to 0.25-0.59 seconds) to display files of up to 600 MB.

Profiles containing different settings can be created, saved, and loaded. Color schemes, window transparency, scroll bar, key bindings, start-up commands, window border, and menu bar can all be customized according to the user's needs.

Good menu to customize.