When comparing altyo vs Wterm, the Slant community recommends Wterm for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for UNIX-like systems?” Wterm is ranked 28th while altyo is ranked 37th. The most important reason people chose Wterm is:
Wterm is very fast despite using very little memory.
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Pros
Pro Few dependencies
Altyo has very few dependencies (it only depends on libvte and gtk3) making it a very lightweight terminal that doesn't require many resources to run.
Pro Fast
Wterm is very fast despite using very little memory.
Pro Memory efficient
Each instance requires only about 6.3 MB of RAM, even with 10.000 lines of buffer.
Cons
Con Not very powerful
Even for a terminal that aims to be as lightweight as possible, altyo is 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 The official repository is inactive
The official repository for Wterm seems to be inactive, with open bug reports as far back as 2006.