It’s high enough that I can feel the lag doing normal things, and if I’m recording 1080p screencast videos at the same time it’s a cause for concern because high quality audio requires low latency audio processing. Having 9 sessions running idle took my CPU to a steady 50% usage. Nothing more than a default basic prompt and a blinking cursor.Īlso as you open more terminal sessions, the CPU load continues to climb. That is purely idling with no work being done in the terminal at all. I’m running Windows 10 Pro 18.09 (stable) and the latest ConEmu but for some reason it consumes a lot of CPU usage.įor example I could have a single ConEmu terminal open, split into 3 panes and then have 2 more terminals off to the side and ConEmu will take my i5 3.2ghz quadcore CPU from 2% usage to 30-35%.

It consumes a massive amount of CPU usage when idling: It opens pretty quick, supports WSL (Bash on Windows), PowerShell, has a bunch of decent looking themes and typing feels fast.īut it suffers from 3 main issues that are deal breakers for me. I still think ConEmu is one of the best overall terminals for Windows. I tend to stick with what I have until I have a very real reason to switch and lately I found myself wanting to switch away from ConEmu for a few reasons. I usually don’t go out looking for new tools randomly.

Hyper ended up being horrendous and now I use the Ubuntu WSL terminal with tmux.

Windows terminal themes github