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Add to SafariWhen comparing LilyTerm vs cool-retro-term, the Slant community recommends cool-retro-term for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for UNIX-like systems?” cool-retro-term is ranked 18th while LilyTerm is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose cool-retro-term is:
Cool-retro-term mimics the look of old cathode screens. This is just aesthetic, but great for people who want a more retro feel.
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Pros
Pro Support for tabbing
You can also color and reorder tabs, as well as manipulate tabs through keybindings.
Pro Transparency support improves usability
LilyTerm has true transparency support, making for better GUI usability.
Pro Change encoding on-the-fly
LilyTerm can change encoding on-the-fly. UTF-8 is the default encoding.
Pro Lightweight
LilyTerm is a terminal emulator that aims to be as lightweight as possible. It requires minimal system resources and has very few dependencies.
Pro Fullscreen support
LilyTerm has fullscreen support which improves visibility.
Pro Mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens
Cool-retro-term mimics the look of old cathode screens. This is just aesthetic, but great for people who want a more retro feel.
Pro Good rendering
If you disable every special effect and the framing, the rendering is actually quite comfortable and readable making a good terminal option if you have CPU cycles to spare.
Pro Good fun
For simple tasks this is wonderful - anyone seeing it will love it, takes me back to using the Commodore Pet in college in the early 80's.
Pro Available in multiple repositories
This terminal is available for download from repositories in all the most popular distros, making it easily available.
Cons
Con Annoying behaviors
The default configuration may have some annoying behaviors (that can be removed by changing the default config). Such include asking for confirmation when reusing an existing window or when starting the terminal to launch a specific command.
Con Not very practical by today's standards
While it certainly has an aesthetic feel, cool-retro-term is nothing more than a cool trick if you want to play around. It's not very useful in this day and age.
Con Extremely heavy and impactful on resources
A massive amount of resources are used as graphical processing in cool-retro-term. They are ridiculously heavy for the terminal's intended use.
Con Large dependency on kde
It looks like many of the effects present here are provided by more or less stock kde effect libraries. For Gnome-based systems, installing this will pull in a large handful of kde libs.
