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.

MobaXterm is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best open source Linux alternative is Ghostty. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to MobaXterm and many of them are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to MobaXterm are Tabby, Remmina, Konsole and Terminator.
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.

Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.



Open source remote desktop client for Linux and BSD supporting RDP, VNC, SPICE, and more, aimed at sysadmins and travelers needing remote access with features like scrollable high-res desktops and organized connection management.




Konsole is a terminal to run a command shell. It provides a command line interface for directly controlling your computer.




Terminator 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.




Alacritty 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.


Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.




GNOME 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.

Tess is a terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more.







A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust



Yakuake 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.

Missing all of the GUI elements of MobaXTerm (X Forwarding, RDP, etc.)