I've used it for a few years; can't complain really. Perhaps it's a bit slow, but I don't notice because I already use VSCode and IntelliJ and have enteprise tooling and Teams in my Mac, so if I were to run a piece of fast software it will probably feel jarring and seizure-inducing.
I tried using this a couple years ago - the big issue I had with it is that it's very slow to render text. I'd often accidentally try to print out something that was much longer than I had realised, and then be stuck with Tabby frozen for serveral minutes while it printed everything out.
If you're just using the terminal to run a few commands, and not working in it a lot, it's a pretty tool, and clearly built with a lot of love.
> We scanned 1338 dependencies and found 94 problems.
Just what I want in my terminal app.
I don't like the endless "security audit" noise, but there are 13 critical issues, some dating back 4 years, and including cryptogrpahy-related flaws (and that's just the top-level yarn.lock).
I actually was looking for a modern age terminal recently, even though I'm sort of happy with how xfce4-terminal has worked for me with regards to tabs and customization.
I was trying to make ssh work on tabby when I realised it's just a glorified browser, I stopped in my tracks and purged the thing. I do enjoy the UX of moving around tabs and changing my mental contexts, but this is too much a price to pay. I don't mind download sizes as long as the application is performant, customizable, and don't have unnecessary backdoors.
This was my first terminal emulator when I got started with Linux (I skipped GNOME's one because it was completely uncustomizable). It's got many useful features and I'd compare it to Windows Terminal, but the 3 second startup times (with a good computer) were too much. After many other terminals I've now settled on Ghostty which provides the customization options I need and starts instantly. The most useful feature of Tabby which I can't find elsewhere is connecting to remote servers with file upload/download support and serial consoles (useful for people working with embedded systems).
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Just needed these two reasons to not even try it out.
* Google Analytics on by default
* >100mb download
For a native terminal I'll happily use kitty or ghostty
For a SSH client Zoc (https://www.emtec.com/zoc/) hasn't disappointed me yet, and even then I almost just always ssh through my terminal.
Apparently this has nothing to do with the other terminus [0]?
[0]: https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/terminus
For Windows, Windows Terminal is pretty ok.
If you're just using the terminal to run a few commands, and not working in it a lot, it's a pretty tool, and clearly built with a lot of love.
Just what I want in my terminal app.
I don't like the endless "security audit" noise, but there are 13 critical issues, some dating back 4 years, and including cryptogrpahy-related flaws (and that's just the top-level yarn.lock).
I was trying to make ssh work on tabby when I realised it's just a glorified browser, I stopped in my tracks and purged the thing. I do enjoy the UX of moving around tabs and changing my mental contexts, but this is too much a price to pay. I don't mind download sizes as long as the application is performant, customizable, and don't have unnecessary backdoors.
Of course it's an Electron app... Sigh.