When comparing EvilVTE 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 EvilVTE is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose QTerminal is:
QTerminal support font ligatures found in fonts like FiraCode.
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Pros
Pro Small and lightweight
EvilVTE is a very small and lightweight terminal emulator. It has a pretty small codebase and very few dependencies.
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
Con Customization only through C header files
Con Not very powerful
Even for a terminal that aims to be as lightweight as possible it's still not as powerful as it should be. It doesn't have many features found in other options and it's not very customizable.
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.