Use kitty as the main terminal emulator

[rdbo]

kitty is fast, has ligatures, is actively developed, and is lightweight
The only problem I could think of is someone said it sends web requests when it starts to check for updates. I checked myself and I couldn't replicate that behavior, but I should double check before adding

[rdbo]

Looks like it can be easily disabled, so probably no big deal

[rdbo]

Another big problem, the startup is unbearably slow unfortunately
It takes me ~ 0.5s per instance, and I have a pretty good processor. Maybe this is not the terminal I've been looking for

[kovidgoyal]

kitty --single-instance will reduce that startup time for all subsequent instances to ~10 ms

[rdbo]

@kovidgoyal Thanks for replying! The --single-instance did improve the startup time
I think there is some sort of overhead though (maybe the way kitty is packaged on my distribution?), because running kitty --version takes basically the same time as running a normal instance
I also noticed that kitty is outdated on the Alpine Linux packages (0.31), could be that as well

~ $ time kitty -e sh -c exit
[196 08:11:45.750857] [glfw error 65544]: process_desktop_settings: failed with error: [org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown] The name org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop was not provided by any .service files

real  0m0.561s
user  0m0.454s
sys   0m0.108s
~ $ time kitty --single-instance -e sh -c exit

real  0m0.389s
user  0m0.314s
sys   0m0.073s
~ $ time kitty --version
kitty 0.31.0 created by Kovid Goyal

real  0m0.374s
user  0m0.317s
sys   0m0.056s

I'm gonna try upgrading it myself and see if I have issues on the latest version as well

[kovidgoyal]

The overhead comes from starting python, which is very slow on your
system for some reason, probably to do with bytecode invalidation.
In any case if you run the kitty nightly both
-version and --single-instance dont use python anymore.

time kitty --version                                                                                                            master 
kitty 0.35.2 created by Kovid Goyal

real	0.003
user	0.000
sys	0.002
maxmem	12 MB
faults	0