Matthias 🤖

Posted on Sep 28, 2019

Iterm2 vs Terminal What Terminal Application do you use on macOS?

#productivity #discuss

Some of my colleagues recently switched to Hyper. I'm still using iTerm 2 and I am very happy, so I don't see a reason to switch.

iTerm 2

Hyper

(Thank you @jakewca for the screenshot!)

What Terminal Application do you use on macOS? Do you use any tweaks?

Top comments (22)

Si • Sep 28 '19

How do you get the Apple logo and system information on terminal start?

Matthias 🤖 • Sep 28 '19

The application is called neofetch.

On macOS you can install it with Homebrew via brew install neofetch.

Ben Geldreich • Apr 6 '20

Hey Matthias! Thanks for sharing neofetch!

I noticed in the iTerm2 screenshot above, it appears as if the OS (apple) logo is the old school rainbow logo? If so do you happen to know what the unicode (/u) code is or where I can find that?
Thanks

Siddharth • Sep 16 '21

I'm a year late...

You could search the source code of neofetch.

Siddharth • Sep 16 '21

It's at the bottom of the file.

This is the art:

${c1}                    c.'
                 ,xNMM.
               .OMMMMo
               lMMM"
     .;loddo:.  .olloddol;.
   cKMMMMMMMMMMNWMMMMMMMMMM0:
${c2} .KMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd.
 XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX.
${c3};MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:
:MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:
${c4}.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX.
 kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd.
 ${c5}'XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMk
  'XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMK.
    ${c6}kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMd
     ;KMMMMMMMWXXWMMMMMMMk.
       "cooc*"    "*coo'"

Everything after ${c} will be colored a different color for each number. I don't know what the colors are though.

Si • Sep 28 '19

Thank you 😊

Matthias 🤖 • Sep 28 '19

Glad that I could help you!

Tina Holly • Dec 17 '20

Wow, this Neofetch thing is awesome, thanks for sharing! What a fun way to start your terminal!

aRtoo • Oct 2 '19

was about to ask this. thank you!

Efrat • Sep 29 '19 • Edited

I recently switched to hyper (from iterm) and its way cooler, the only limit is your imagination...
for example I made it transparent so this is how it looks like:

David Wickes • Sep 28 '19

I don't really care which terminal emulator I use. If you're running a multiplexer like tmux it makes previous little difference.

I remember seeing hyper a few years ago and being told I should be impressed because it could animate text exploding when you type. 🤷.

I have some affection for st, owing to its simplicity.

Josh • Sep 28 '19

Vanilla Terminal, with bash-it. I've been curious about nushell recently, but have yet to install it on my dev environment

Leon Radley • Sep 28 '19

I use the standard MacOS terminal together with github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

What are the benefits of using iTerm or Hyper?

Paweł Świątkowski • Oct 30 '19

I'm moving away from ITerm 2 for Kitty. It is more rough, but has some advantages for me:

Configuration is in a text file, so I can pull it in my repo for configs and get up running quickly on a new machine
I like its layout idea and that I can easily split terminal window with only keyboard
It also works on Linux, so I don't have a vendor lock-in
After some careful configuration text looks prettier there ;)

Jake • Sep 28 '19

I currently use TMUX nested in iTerm2 but I’m very tempted by Hyper.

Matthias 🤖 • Sep 28 '19

I tried to download and install it because I wanted to make a screenshot for this post.
But it seems, that Hyper cannot be started on macOS Catalina.

Jake • Sep 28 '19 • Edited

Looks like there’s already an issue about it. github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/3750

Feel free to use mine screenshot.

Matthias 🤖 • Sep 28 '19

Thank you 😀

Nathan Daly • May 7 '21 • Edited

I switched from powerlevel10k to Pure and I like it a lot.

dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/up...

This is a good guide.
gist.github.com/ganapativs/e571d92...

Shyl0ck • Feb 18 '20

You guys should give a try to Terminus:

eugeny.github.io/terminus/#header

omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/terminus-m...

aRtoo • Oct 2 '19

Im using ohmyzsh on my mac. I used to use Hyper but it was so buggy at that time that I removed it and switch. Haven't used iterm though.

Eric Ahnell • Oct 1 '19

Vanilla Terminal + oh-my-zsh (Yes, zsh is my default shell... didn't take long for it to replace bash), but I'm certainly open to other options for the front end.

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