Alacritty vs. GNOME Terminal
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Alacritty | GNOME Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.3 | 4.5 |
| Review count | 12 | 14 |
| Ease of use | 9.0 | 9.3 |
| Ease of setup | 9.3 | 9.0 |
| Quality of support | 8.4 | 9.6 |
| Meets requirements | 8.9 | 9.8 |
| NPS | 50 | 66.666667 |
| Small Business | 50.0% | 64.3% |
| Mid-Market | 33.3% | 21.4% |
| Enterprise | 16.7% | 14.3% |
| Total page views | 130 | 72 |
| Total LLM citations | 239 | 145 |
Alacritty
Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance. The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.
GNOME Terminal
Terminal is a terminal emulator application for accessing a UNIX shell environment which can be used to run programs available on your system.