Someone explained to me once why a GPU-accelerated terminal emu might be useful, but I can't recall what you might use that for. Anyone have an example of what a good use case would be?

I guess this is an honest opinion

I switched to Kitty because I felt that the increased speed produced a perceived improvement in my workflow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29528343

There's probably no big reason. It's just that text is printed much faster. There's no huge gain, especially for general usage and most use cases. But why not? Why shouldn't you use the gpu if you have one?

If gpu would've been first, you'd wonder why you should use cpu if it's slower. Faster is always(?) better and I as a user don't really care if it is wayland or x11, why should I care about gpu or cpu? It just sounds great, but under the hood, it's just a marketing stunt.

It's nice to have but I just don't care. Like if earbuds last 6 or 8 hours. They charge within 5 or 10 minutes, why should I care? Or like losless audio. My headphones can't play it, and more important I can't hear a difference. It's nice, I'll take it, but I don't care about it.

Can I ssh into a server and not lose all productivity yet? Last time I tried ghostty I had to setup separate configs for my servers because they didn't recognize it :/

A little bit more about the sponsor on HackerNews.

If you are a lazy bastard not wanting to click this, basically there a quite a few issues with the main goal of Hack Club (not the fiscal sponsorship sidequest), such as not using a privacy policy for kids for 11 years, many leaks of said data and misclassifying workers in at least 2024.