[ckbkr10]

My workday is 95% terminal, I work on a company managed windows 11 machine using git-scm as an easily updateable min-gw environment. A git-bash has been my configurable linux terminal on windows.

Why would one need a gpu accelerated terminal? What's the use case here?

I mean, I've worked on connections offering a an mbit of throughput. That was enough for the kind of work I'm doing.

I really do not understand what this is for, can someone enlighten me please?

[klaussilveira]

Well, in the age of 3440x1440 displays and retina, you are forced to render high-quality fonts, not just bitmaps. In order to do that well, and fast enough, you need the GPU.

Font rendering is hard:

https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/

https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/

https://behdad.org/text2024/

So much that Slug is a thing:

https://sluglibrary.com/

[ckbkr10]

I see. I'm still holding on to my 3:4 aspect ratio EIZOs as second screen just because I prefer having a smaller second screen instead of 2 huge widescreens.

Opting into anything higher than 1920x1080 seems uncomfortable for me.

Maybe I just get old. I find it hard to read fonts on higher resolutions and it seems like other people do as well..

16pt Lucida Console on 1920x1080 just works way too well for me to even consider switching to anything else.