a big multicore is 77% more awesome when running bpytop, this is simply a fact
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I can't stop running CPU-intensive stuff and watching bpytop.
It's beautiful.
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Meh. I can't stand running monitoring tools that consume a sizeable chunk of resources on the system being monitored.
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well, gnome terminal uses like 20% of one of my processors normally, so I don't really object that much to something different
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VTE isn't particularly fast or lightweight either way.
The developers also see it as being GNOME Terminal as a widget rather than a library. Leads to hard-wiring only what GNOME Terminal wants and not providing a way to do things another way. Many arbitrarily private APIs, etc.
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I had a project providing a keyboard-centric terminal using VTE and we could never get them to expose the APIs we needed for keyboard-based text selection, etc. Handed it off to other people but they lost interest too, largely because it's so frustrating dealing with VTE.
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Needing to have a fork of the library and repeatedly porting forward patches to expose APIs for pausing/resuming output, text selection, etc. was frustrating. Kept needing to patch it to add new APIs and work around problems in it. Haven't really kept track of new alternatives.
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Definitely won't be working on something like that again but it would be nice if there was another terminal picking up the same features (Vim-style mode for text selection and a Vimperator-inspired URL hint mode displaying numbers over them and allowing quickly opening one).
Way too busy with other things that interest me far more and I simply don't care as much about having efficient ways to do things with the keyboard now that I no longer make any significant use of a laptop. Still burned from dealing with VTE and other GNOME-adjacent things too.
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