What terminal do you use?

I work on a mac so I use iTerm, with a zsh shell and I'm using the spaceship theme of zsh so I can see git details as well as my package version and what version of node I'm using!

Windows Terminal

Gnome Terminal

Hyper ♥️ It got super awesome plugins and I can customize it in any way I want 🙂

I use kitty. When kitty isn't available I use termite. If I can't have any of those I go for whatever is the default. Unless the default is xterm, in that case I would try to install lxterminal or xfce4-terminal.

For the shell I prefer zsh.

Windows Terminal with Git Bash and Ubuntu Bash :)

I've never been super picky when it comes to terminals, as long as there are tabs I use whatever. Mainly Konsole with fish shell. No particular reason why I use Konsole. Fish shell I've gotten used to the colored feedback when typing commands.

Windows terminal with WSL2. so it's real bash on real linux. I've moved most of my dev work in here because a lot of the stuff I do runs on linux servers anyway, so developing and local testing in WSL2 reduces a lot of possible issues, very often due to slight differences in dependencies. On the plus side, being in a full linux environment means access to not only bash and gnu tools, but also full on linux programs that aren't available if you're running in git bash.

In Linux I normally use Tilda drop down terminal or Guake or gnome-terminal if I have to; in Windows I use Hyper terminal mostly, but use Windows Terminal on occasion. Then I use my own 'UniShellect' tool to load other shells.

For local work, either Windows Terminal or the terminal built into VSCode. For remote work, kitty, though I'm not married to either, and I'm starting to use VSCode more and more for remote work as I get more used to it and change my work flow to adapt to it.

Ive used termite, alacritty, xterm, and st. Termite is greatest, but because of its age it has issues building on modern distros, so I use st its blazing fast and very customizable.

Windows - WT if available(preferring cmd, ps , wsl shell)
Linux - gnome terminal preferably (shell bash, zsh) althought any terminal(xfce, konsole, xterm) is just fine as long it's bash or zsh shell

Like to keep it minimal if I can open an cmd and run then that's it

Although I keep updating my setup such as using WT on my personal machine, while my work pc still use basic cmd terminals mostly

first I used the Default terminal of the Linux but it's to much boring for me then I was installed ohmyzsh terminal its fairly seems to be good but his speed to much slow then I come back to default terminal of the Linux . I Prefer speed instead of funs...

iTerm

I'm using powershell with starship so far, it's awesome and so much better than the default command prompt on Windows: git sensitive, more user friendly, ergonomic, etc

Life changing !

I tried many times to install other terminals like Hyper etc and for some reason they were always really slow compared to the default mac one or linux one.

I have though a good set of custom functions and aliases that I commonly use.

Zsh Shell with powerline10k it's just so awesome and the scripts i added on my own in .zshrc instead if plugin installed by oh my zsh or plug as they slow down so yeah its way better now.

! My Terminal
I just today read a post about terminals and I tried to use a new terminal for fun, learning, and being cool. So I tried the starship and It felt pretty cool too.

I have iterm2 installed but I generally only ever need to use the integrated terminal in VSCode.

Sorry if this posted twice. Actually hit the post button around 1500, but when I came back to the tab, it was hung. At any rate...

Given your "prefer the UNIX-like environment" statement, I'll assume you mean "terminal program for Windows". In which case:

1. PuTTY: it's the option that combines good capabilities, "least-annoying" and fairly light weight.
2. MobaXterm's decent (especially for when you need X redirection but don't want to have to think about it), but, it intercepts some key-combos that have some REALLY annoying results.
3. Git-Bash is ok, but it's a bit too stripped down of a Cygwin implementation.
4. Prior to Windows 10's WSL, I'd have included Cygwin/X. It's primary downfall is that it's a heavy solution.

Speaking of Windows 10/WSL: if I don't need X redirection, firing up the WSL Ubuntu app is probably the least-painless, most fully-functional option for a "UNIX-like environment to either work in or jump out from".

I used iTerm + Atom for a while but switched to the terminal built into VS Code once I moved to that IDE. I really like having all the tools I need built into a single app, but iTerm was fantastic and had no issues using it either.

kitty... has multiplexing support.. so no need for tmux (i know tmux can do moar... but slow af)... and it's fast, snappy, has ligature support, configurable... it's noice!
config: gist.github.com/audacioustux/4967b... (there's alacritty config too.. but alacritty + tmux was shitty experience for me.. tmux slows down everything)

Cmder is a pretty nice one

cmder.net/

For a long time I have used Kitty and later Alacritty. After switching over to Windows , Windows Terminal with Alpine WSL (barebone gnu utilities was enough for my daily usage) was my first choice for its speed, and spent some time in Fluent Terminal as well. I am planning to switch over to hackintosh, where maybe I would go with iTerm, not sure though.

I use Powershell on Windows, and ZSH on Linux. Powershell just has better integration on Windows, specifically with Docker Desktop for me, which I use heavily. ZSH is my preference though for all the useful customizations.

TL;DR - Alacritty + Tmux

Alacritty with tmux. Using alacritty forced met to get familiar with tmux. Although I'm not even close to being a pro tmux user using tmux greatly helps when connecting to servers. You don't have to create multiple sessions for the sake of running multiple things parallel-y or monitoring a bunch of different stats. One ssh session and use tmux to multiplex your terminal.
Super useful now in the remote world. We have to ssh into machines and servers all the time and tmux comes in handy. If you're pairing and are constrained by network. Both of you can now just ssh into the machine and connect to the same tmux session (instead of sharing screen)

Tmux can be used on any terminal - but Alacritty forced me to use it. Alacritty provides no panes and provides for only one shell at a time.

iTerm2 because it can do this fancy thing with "Quake-like" console that drops down from the top of the screen ^_^
And because it's handy to be able to show/hide the terminal on any workspace even above full-screen application.

Just the default Terminal for Mac.

I've thought about switching to ITerm or Hyper for the fun customization options, but there's something to be said about how fast, simple, and resource-light Terminal is. :P

On Mac, ITerm2 with zsh & oh my zsh framework (like plug-ins alias & themes)

I use the terminal in vscode too, it s very convenient

tmux with bash in Linux, the new Windows Terminal (github.com/microsoft/terminal) in Windows

Tilix with zsh.

Windows Terminal

iTerm2 with Zsh ❤️

I use Terminal in Linux Lite, then I install tmux and setting it for run in Terminal startup with this code in first line of .bashrc:

[[ $TERM != "screen" ]] && exec tmux

Mac Terminal with zsh.

I used Hyper for a while, but everything I liked about Hyper is faster and simpler with zsh.

I started with bash, it has been good to me for several years but now I'm trying out fish because themes!! And I have yet to find fault with it

Kitty and Termux. Sometimes I also use hyper.js, but it can be slow.

Windows Terminal with WSL and powershell. Best of both worlds :)

Cmdr. I tried it a couple of years ago and never switched back to GitBash.

iTerm2 on Mac OS and Terminus, now Tabby on Windows.

The 2nd is a recent discovery having a whole lot of features such as selection of shells (Powershell, Git Bash, etc) per connection, tabbed support, saving sessions, themes (most popular ones for iTerm2, Linux ones work for Terminus) and lastly, customisable config using CSS and YAML exportable for backups.

Never looked back at Windows terminal, putty, MobaXterm since 😁

For Linux I use gnome and have gnome-terminal pre-installed so I use that and for the shell itself, I have zsh with zinit setup and then with starship as the theme and with windows I have Windows Terminal installed and I'm usually using powershell (if not, wsl ubuntu with the zsh setup), I have yet to try starship with powershell so might try that soon.

cmder for windows

Alacritty (on Linux desktop)

Tilix.

The default Terminal for Mac, but I use Fish shell (which is the best shell imo).

iTerm2 with zsh ♥️

Love my iterm with ohmyzsh dev.to/avantsekai/terminal-with-it...

Oh My Zsh!

Terminus all the way
github.com/Eugeny/terminus

I just switch to ZSH with oh-my-zsh. Love it! Especially the git plugins.