I’m convinced that a term/browser can somehow help in the fight against ensh*ttification and general spoiling of the internet experience for certain classes of user.

Edited for typo.

As much as I despise the feature (security), I absolutely respect the motivation to do it. I think this is why its so refreshing - one of those itches being scratched which, sure - why not? - but then again, omfg, just no.

It is free, but it's also easy to throw money at George, as you've probably already done. The About menu has links for Patreon and Github Sponsors. I've only ever used the former. Given how much of my time is spent in the terminal, and how good it is, it seems like some money well spent to me.

Can you enlighten me with some advanced features that you use? I would love to start using them. I have always used iTerm, but never really used advanced stuff.

Problems we wouldn't have if more people used i3/sway.

It's one of the first things I install on a new mac. Along with Firefox. So the browser is a bit redundant for me.

I actually only use a fraction of the features but the ones I do use seem to be lacking in the few linux terminals I've used.

Things I like:

- easy to switch between tabs (command + arrow), use this all the time

- easy to copy paste (command+c, command+v, same as in the rest of the OS).

- easy to scroll (just passes through scroll events to things like less and bat)

- looks alright with the right font setup

- right click split horizontally/vertically; easy and I do this all the time. And no need to remember the key combos for that.

- it remembers the directory of each tab when I restart it. Simple feature but so nice.

There are a lot of smaller features that you won't notice until they aren't there.

The keybindings are of course a nice side effect of not having to use ctrl for everything, which conflicts with a lot of stuff in terminals (e.g. ctrl+c aborts stuff). There is the "windows" key of course for the last few decades but somehow using that as a modifier never caught on in the Linux world. So keybindings are a bit more awkward. So you have to remember to press ctrl+shift+c, depending on what window you are looking at. Which is something I get wrong every few times I do it.

Anyway, iterm2 is the best terminal across all operating systems I'm aware off. I have a linux laptop as well and I haven't really found anything I liked so far. And I tried essentially all the popular ones.

IMHO the main issue in this space is people geeking out on configuration languages but then forgetting to add a nice usable preference screen in their ultimate iterm2 killer (which seems to set the bar for a lot of these things). I'm sure it's great if you take a sabbatical and make a deep study of the freaking manual to program your settings correctly. But that just makes for a really high barrier of entry. Iterm2 in comparison is very easy to configure but even if you don't do that, it just generally does a lot of things right out of the box that don't need micromanaging.

Anyway, nice upgrade and just generally nice to see this oss product stay fresh and relevant over the years.

I'd modify to say "if you're using Terminal.app". Kitty and Alacritty etc exist and people do like them.

I moved to kitty a while back. IIRC, it was because iTerm2 would take up lots of RAM on my old 8GB MacBook Air. But never any hard feelings to iTerm2, perhaps I ought to switch back on my 64GB new machine.

I would use any other emulator than iTerm2. They are much more capable and more performant even if they are not as feature rich as iTerm2.

First I thought "WTF why" and I'm still thinking "WTF why"

But why wouldn't you just use any old window tiling manager?

Sounds like an attack vector

There are only two essential apps on my Mac. iTerm2, and a browser

> Tomorrow we have operating system in the terminal.

That's called emacs

> Tomorrow we have operating system in the terminal.

That's called eMacs.

You can have that. Cmd-Opt-Shift-V or H to split with a different profile, or use the move/swap options in the context menu to put any panes in the same tab after creation.

it would generally be for environments where the browser is locked down as well, or has a special extension installed for "security". In a lot of those cases the shell is recorded and send to a central tool, but the webview would not be logged

Based on experiences with my current corporate security group, everything is a threat.

I see your point and I think it is a valid opinion, I just wanted to point out that if you are cosplaying as rsync, you are doing it right :-)

There you go https://imgur.com/a/Ly2mEyj

I didn't switch any profile, I just clicked a link in terminal and it opened as a tab in the same window. I then dragged this tab to be split view with the original terminal

This is a full browser rendering using WKWebView, not a terminal text-based browser like lynx.

Did you also update iTerm2 after putting the browser add-on in your Application folder?

https://iterm2.com/downloads.html

You can uninstall it and re-install the latest version from here to be double sure

If you have no use for the features, then the MacOS terminal will do fine.

https://iterm2.com/features.html

If you spend a significant time in the terminal, those are very nice.

You have to install the add-on first https://iterm2.com/browser-plugin.html

On Linux you get to have the “fun” decision of which UI toolkit to use, and pretty sure neither WebkitGTK nor QTWebengine support passkeys or ad blocking extensions anyway, and I doubt more obscure toolkits somehow have more featureful webviews. This might be one of the worst examples of why you should buy Linux. It’s a case of having good building blocks on macOS that are easy to implement but have some restrictions, vs having shitty building blocks (if at all) on Linux.

A non-Apple solution (without these restrictions) could also be implemented on MacOS. I don't see why this makes using Linux computers more compelling. WKWebView is simply a convenient solution I guess but it could have also be implemented through CEF for example.

As I see it, if I was using a Linux computer I wouldn't have access to a terminal with such a feature at all.

Because browsers built in terminals in Linux do support adblocking extensions?

Yes, and I am more convinced that the market for non-iOS and non-Android mobile devices will grow.

Not sure if its going to be GrapheneOS, or Linux — But we can witness the growing trend of privacy-focus — especially after AI being introduced on the OS layer — grabbing recurring screenshots, uploading to clouds, and essentially destroying E2E encryption.

Still waiting for it at the common computer stores, unless you mean something with ChromeOS/WebOS/Android as Linux distributions.

I mean, the developer chose to use Apples limiting browser, that was a choice not a requirement.

haaaaaave you looked at Firefox/Chrome recently?

PS: I agree.

what is a linux computer