Warp Terminal is Lifting their login requirement

https://www.warp.dev/blog/lifting-login-requirement

Their terminal will now be functional offline, as terminals should be...

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44 Comments

dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 1y (24 replies)

I’m old, and curmudgeon, so I say this with much disdain: there are few things that need ”updating” or “multiplayer”, and the terminal is not one of them.

Edit: forgot a word

catloaf@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think you forgot a "not"

dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Thanks!

kryptonidas@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 1y (19 replies)

Warp is a great terminal imho with new features being added that make life in the terminal easier.

Login can go though. But there might be someone who loves the multiplayer feature.

whithom@discuss.online · 10 pts · 1y (18 replies)

Like what

kjaeselrek@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I tried it out for a little while and it was pretty good at remembering passwords that I had typed and printing them in plaintext later for unknown reasons.

whithom@discuss.online · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

😅 sounds like a great feature.

kjaeselrek@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
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kryptonidas@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 1y (14 replies)

It didn’t start out with the AI feature, now if I don’t remember a command fully I can just type “# thing I want to do” and it will give you an a template where you can fill in the right variables for your case.

It’s not flawless but pretty good and saves me “man-ing” and searching.

whithom@discuss.online · 18 pts · 1y (12 replies)

Saves your from learn-ing

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 16 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Sometimes I want to learn, sometimes I just need to get something done. Why not be able to do both?

whithom@discuss.online · -7 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Because then you’ll never learn.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1y

Sometimes I want to learn, sometimes I just need to get something done. Why not be able to do both?

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 3 pts · 1y

Lol, whatever 😂

JWBananas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Premature optimization is a waste of time.

Deceptichum@quokk.au · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)
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whithom@discuss.online · -7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Maybe they would be better off on windows.

Bezier@suppo.fi · 3 pts · 1y

It's worth nothing unless you manually write your commands in machine language!

expr@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y

JFC I will definitely stay the fuck away from whatever garbage this is.

harsh3466@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

I was reading that whole thing thinking the exact same thing. Disdain and all.

just_another_person@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

Kind of in the same boat, but I can see this being useful for distributed Ops teams, or possibly in support.

Rogue@feddit.uk · 46 pts · 1y

Warp is just creepy as shit. Even if they're pulling back on requiring an account to use a terminal I can't see myself giving it another try.

TechnologyChef@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I guess the little options of a pull down terminal by hotkey and a specific colorizing transparency are the only GUI things I look to from Yakuake and Konsole, but so many things can be accomplished internally. I love learning to think on the command line and creating things. I feel blessed and ingenious to just take care of things like a lot of servers or databases when needed where there isn't a tool around to solve an issue using terminal utilities all building a secure and helpful solution. I can just create my own customizations and setup or borrow from others', including AI connections, in BASH and ZSH. It's been years between needing a new tool or change, and the last one was only converting from BASH to ZSH because of people's good work in customizations I liked.

bruhbeans@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y

I was on the wait-list so long that I forgot why I was interested. Then I got the invite, downloaded the thing, got prompted to log in and immediately deleted the thing. I still don't remember why I was interested but I'm definitely not fucking with it now.

AlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.com · 4 pts · 1y

If you use a terminal emulator with a forced always-on internet requirement and "AI" tools, you're a fucking idiot.

stellargmite@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I’m a non dev and non IT worker but found myself using warp the last year on mac and linux kde for home things and work. I really like it particularly its history per tab and various intuitive usability things like click and drag to select text , copy pasteetc. The login requirement did creep me out, as well as the AI things I’m not using. I don’t trust businesses going in these directions. Anyone recommended another terminal cross platform (not that important i guess) and good for a non uber techie like me?

Edit: apologies I hadn't seen the earlier comment thread but perhaps my requirement mentions will produce some interesting replies.

snooting@sub.wetshaving.social · 3 pts · 1y

Kitty might meet your needs well, I’ve been quite happy with it

josefo@leminal.space · 3 pts · 1y (13 replies)

Slightly offtopic, but I'm looking for a new terminal, can I have some recommendations? I feel like Warp is not going to be on the list.

nick@midwest.social · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Wezterm is my go to

jezza@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Seconded.
Wezterm is one of the best, most customisable terminals I've used.

It's super fast, and there's a lot you can do with it.

The multiplexing still has some rough edges, but it's getting closer and closer to replacing tmux for me.

AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Kitty term is quite good Or if you want something that just damn works, xfce4-terminal is one I can't get myself to replace

moonlight@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1y

Yeah kitty is really good. I did mostly choose it for the name, but it might be the best terminal emulator out there. It's fast, with a lot of great modern features.

Hexarei@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y

I'm a fan of Alacritty, it's written in rust and uses GPU rendering to be one of the fastest terminals on the planet. Sounds odd but genuinely makes a difference

redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y

Konsole is great on kde

bamboo@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

iTerm2 works well enough

EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Termius is phenomenal if remote SSH is your goal. The portability between desktop and phones is flawless, and it’s truly one of the only subscription services I gladly pay for. They come out with nice regular updates too.

If all you need is a slick terminal to use locally though, kitty is great.

megane_kun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

It depends on what you need on a terminal. If I just wanted a terminal, I'd go with Foot, but Konsole (on KDE Plasma) might be a good all-around solution.

asudox@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y

Alacritty

Allero@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Easily Ptyxis if you work with containers or immutable distros. Makes managing containers a breeze, has tabs for each container in which you can work as normal and is full of visual clues so you won't be able to mess anything up.

Blisterexe@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

Also the new default terminal on fedora workstation!

asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I like Rio

sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

I don't think I've ever installed a different terminal besides the one that came stock... what am I missing out?

(Except on Android which doesn't come with a terminal, I installed termux for some reason at one point, which I don't use, and JuiceSSH which was so nice I kicked some money their way).