Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal

While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Ptyxis-Recommended

[unwind-protect]

Thingie any good? Looks like Arch doesn't offer it.

[M@GOid]

Somehow somebody will find this revolting and will be criticizing Canonical for this decision. Even if he/she don't use Ubuntu. This is Phoronix Phoruns phor you.

[davidbepo]

Thingie any good? Looks like Arch doesn't offer it.

nope, it sucks and the dev is an asshole

[Raka555]

The Million Byte question is how much memory does it use?

[NeoMorpheus]

Somehow somebody will find this revolting and will be criticizing Canonical for this decision. Even if he/she don't use Ubuntu. This is Phoronix Phoruns phor you.

Damn!

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[NeoMorpheus]

If this thing is that good, they should simply work on it, show it as beta or whatever and state that it will replace the original.

But these new names/new apps shit is what keeps Linux in general so disjointed.

Insert the 15 standards XKCD meme here.

[User29]

The point when linux finally cuts all its unix roots will come when people will stop using idiotic/misleading program names.

[Espionage724]

ptyxis seems odd to me instead of kgx for mainstream. Iirc ptyxis is more "Containers" oriented, which I let fly with whatever Fedora is prioritizing, but I find it interesting Ubuntu doing the switch to it too.

I heard of kgx first when openSUSE TW either mentioned it or had it default in GNOME.

On F41 beta ptyxis I initially ran into a bug with copy/pasting commands; it was fixed, but it wasn't a problem with kgx: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org...s-now/131691/9 (this is a minor but good example of the weakening QA going on with mainstream Linux that had me seek an alternative; rushing to re-invent wheels, while pushing broken stuff that easily shouldn't have passed a draft/basic use by a dev)

Also, the name is pronounced "tick-sys"; the P is silent I remembered the command by thinking "p, t, y, xis". Considering this is supposed to be a GUI Terminal accessible with convenience, I'm not sure how that command name flew past an initial concept (it's a cool name but lmao good luck trying to tell someone to open that on the fly without needing context; cmd or ps is Windows, gnome-terminal and xfce4-terminal make sense, kgx is easy, I'm not sure how "yeah dog just open up ptyxis" can ever roll-off the tongue )

[terawave]

Thingie any good? Looks like Arch doesn't offer it.

It's in the AUR. You can also get it from Flathub.

GNOME Console has only a few, very basic preferences. Ptyxis has preferences similar to GNOME Terminal and that makes it a better replacement for GNOME Terminal than GNOME Console is. The tab overview in Ptyxis is a neat feature when working with a lot of tabs. I can't say I notice a speed difference between the 3 but Ptyxis has become my default. Christian is planning to shove a full-featured IDE into the terminal which, while I don't quite follow the technical, sounds interesting.