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How to get the most out of your Terminal | by Reagan McFarland | Medium<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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the recipe is basically three steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. a “modern” terminal. He suggest Alacritty<\/a> becuase is fast<\/em>. Like really fast. <\/em>This is because it uses OpenGL to offload some of the processing to your GPU, a feature very few terminal emulators have. I’m quite satisfied by Gnome Terminal, thanks.<\/li>\n
  2. Then he suggests\n
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    1. Starship<\/a> is a cross-shell prompt that not only looks great out of the box, but has a tremendous amount of features. Fine, I’ll try it<\/li>\n
    2. DistroTube\u2019s Shell Color Scripts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    3. He tells us to use shell configuration files (aka ~\/.bashrc or ~\/.bash_profile). I discovered them many years ago<\/li>\n
    4. SpaceVim<\/a>, a “Modern Vim distribution”. He says it is optional. It seems great. I’ll surely try it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How to get the most out of your Terminal | by Reagan McFarland | Medium the recipe is basically three steps: a “modern” terminal. He suggest Alacritty becuase is fast. Like really fast. This is because it uses OpenGL to offload some of the processing to your GPU, a feature very few terminal emulators have.…<\/p>\n

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