Cross-platform terminal emulator balancing speed, platform-native UI, and modern features. Designed for an enhanced interactive CLI environment, offering full standards compliance for seamless integration with shells and CLI tools.
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iTerm2 Alternatives for Linux
iTerm2 is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to iTerm2 and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to iTerm2 are Tabby, Hyper, Alacritty and Kitty terminal.
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59 Ghostty alternatives
108 Tabby alternativesTabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
Tabby vs iTerm2 Comments
- Tabby is Free and Open Source
98 Hyper alternativesHyper™ is a beautiful and extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards. It provides an elegant command-line experience that is consistent across all supported platforms which includes macOS, Windows and various Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian.
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87 Alacritty alternativesAlacritty is a blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It’s written in Rust and uses OpenGL for rendering to be the fastest terminal emulator available. Alacritty is available on GitHub in source form.
Alacritty vs iTerm2 Comments
RemovedUserI'm happy because it works on Linux Mint and has more customization and features than the built-in terminal application.
- Alacritty is Free and Open Source
87 Kitty terminal alternativesKitty ( not to be confused with KiTTY ) is a powerful, cross-platform GPU-based terminal emulator. It offloads rendering to the GPU and uses OpenGL for fast, cross-platform performance with built-in tiling layouts as well as graphic, unicode...
90 Terminator alternativesTerminator enables the user to run and manage multiple terminal emulators side-by-side in the same window. The main focus is arranging terminals in a grid. (Tabs is the most common default method, which Terminator also supports.
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Terminator vs iTerm2 Comments
TildeTerminator is Linux/BSD-only. iTerm2 is macOS-only.
- Terminator is Free and Open Source
72 Konsole alternativesKonsole is a terminal to run a command shell. It provides a command line interface for directly controlling your computer.
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Konsole vs iTerm2 Comments
TildeKonsole is Linux/BSD-only. iTerm2 is macOS-only.
- Konsole is Free and Open Source
52 Warp Terminal alternativesWarp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.
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Warp Terminal vs iTerm2 Comments
hitoriIt's modern, fast, easy to config and pretty.
- Warp Terminal is Freemium and Proprietary
73 GNOME Terminal alternativesGNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.
GNOME Terminal vs iTerm2 Comments
TildeGNOME Terminal is Linux/BSD-only. iTerm2 is macOS-only.
Its functionality is comparably too limited.
- GNOME Terminal is Free and Open Source
63 Tess alternativesTess is a terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more.
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44 Yakuake alternativesYakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.
Yakuake vs iTerm2 Comments
TildeYakuake is Linux/BSD-only. iTerm2 is macOS-only.
'tis a drop-down terminal with advanced features like split screen. Its only major limitation is that it doesn't work as well (liable to crash or become unresponsible) under non-KDE environments like Cinnamon and GNOME.
- Yakuake is Free and Open Source
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Really exactly the iTerm2 but for Windows!