[cbmuser]

Can you elaborate on that a bit, please?

I have never found myself in the situation where my terminal emulator would be too slow and I‘m using it for the majority of my day-to-day work.

I honestly never ran into a situation where I would habe blamed the terminal emulator for being too slow.

[dkdcio]

not the same person but in the flow of doing things those little pauses (tens of milliseconds) do matter. I open/close nvim (and less-so tmux) a ton, and run lots of commands per day. I don’t want to wait

and once you get used to things being that fast, it’s hard to go back (analogous to what people say about high-refresh screens/monitors)

all that said the speed of the default mac terminal (and other emulators I tried) was always fine for me, performance was not why I switched to Ghostty

[barnabee]

I think this kind of thing just bothers some people and not others.

I first started to understand and notice update rates and responsiveness as a gamer playing 1st person shooters.

I hate (ok, I find it a bit jarring) the jerky scrolling of a phone in battery save mode limited to 60(?) FPS. It’s so obviously not connected to your touch anymore.

In terminals it’s things like the responsiveness fuzzy finders and scrolling that I really notice.

I turn off animations everywhere I can.

It’s not impossible to use something slower, but when everything feels instant it’s just much more pleasant, smoother, and feels more productive as a result of the computer working at whatever speed my brain does.