Warp, the modern terminal, is now available for Linux

You gotta love the copy on the Warp site. As for why they're now launching it on Linux:

Despite this, Linux has relatively few terminal options compared to Mac and Windows

...relatively few? Really?

Then that's definitely a hard nope from me.

Yeah. I don’t think so

<homer backing into hedge gif>

I tried it today. It's cool and I can see why people like it. I liked some parts of it. The ability to filter output from previous shell commands is nice, don't have to have vim or use rg to filter things on remote machines.

Path completion over ssh was a bit slow-ish but worked.

Command completion was nice too, works like fzf over your shell history (which I already have in other shells).

I will try it some more but I haven't fallen in love with it yet. It feels a bit slower than kitty to me.

That actually sucks a lot. But I will try it. Don't want to be old man shouting at the cloud... But that's a big negative, I agree.

I dug around their site to try and answer your question for myself. Nothing I saw would make me want to switch terminals (I'm content with whatever built-in comes with the OS, usually), but it has some interesting flashy bits:

• "Warp AI" is ChatGPT baked into the app. Might be handy for certain situations, but it's online only soooooo why wouldn't I just use ddg?
• "Warp Drive" is a way to make / organize / share user scripts. Seems to be focused on team-based sharing.
• the app separates commands into blocks, which might make scripting faster/easier for some people.

If I felt lost in the terminal, a lot of these features would be attractive to me.

Well, you know, it's something different. ;).

Give me a term that I can bash on, and I'm good. (Or whatever a user wants to use other than bash).

I do like Cool Retro Term though. Sometimes it's fun to look at something from the 70's or 80's.

Cheers!

Yeah. I just checked to see if it was in the AUR yet.... I still don't have an answer.

Nice!