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Warp, the modern terminal, is now available for Linux

by ackatz on 2/22/24, 4:07 PM with 12 comments

• by DiabloD3 on 2/22/24, 6:24 PM

  I don't think there is any point to a cloud-spyware terminal, nor should anyone that is security-minded ever touch this thing. Not only that, why are they trying to charge money for a terminal? We already have a dozen better terminals, and they're already FOSS!

  I've read through the marketing material, and all they keep doing is repeatedly claiming that they protect your privacy, yet upload everything you do to the cloud and are using it to build an LLM. This will leak internal details of your actions on your own machines, and is probably banned at most companies de facto due to internal policy.

  They are also attempting to reputation-wash by moving from Electron to Rust. Certainly, their engineering team made a great decision by dropping the cursed performance-killer spawned from the unholy union of NodeJS and Chrome, but there is no reason for this product to exist in the first place!

  Edit: Also, watch out, employees from Warp are lurking about in the HN comments here.

• by mmh0000 on 2/22/24, 8:44 PM

  A terminal with built-in "telemetry" (spyware) and a pricing model... Just what I never wanted!

  To avoid being too negative, I'll offer the option of Kitty[1]. My current favorite terminal. Supports many features.

  Including my personal favorites:

  * ctrl+c (as opposed to stupid things like ctrl+shift+c) to copy data only when you have content selected. Otherwise, ctrl+c sends a sigint like normal.

  * font ligature support (a controversial feature)

  [1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

• by devaiops9001 on 2/22/24, 7:29 PM

  No source code? For a terminal?! Fuck no. In the trash this goes. Permanently not ever giving this a second look.

• by no-dr-onboard on 2/22/24, 5:34 PM

  I wonder if they're still pulling telemetry from their users in this package.

• by pixard on 2/22/24, 6:26 PM

  Does it still require a login? If so thanks but no thanks.

• by tripleo1 on 2/22/24, 6:45 PM

  1. They are having a "launch party". This is "interesting". They are selling to devs (I read bros, YMMV).

  2. Is there a two minute tldr? (aka What are the key concepts?)

  3. What is the evolutionary path from rxvt to this?