I've switched to Ghostty as my Terminal. It's really nice. I'm now documenting my terminal setup, starting with my top 3 terminal command line tools:

https://pcweenies.com/my-top-three-terminal-command-line-tools/

#terminal #macOS #ghostty

After some reflection... I've decided to stick with #ubuntu for another two years and have upgraded all my machines (3 desktops, 4 servers) to 26.04 by doing:

$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d

On the desktop side, things went pretty smoothly and I only had to do the following after the update completed:

1. Resolve some configuration file conflicts, notably rsnapshot, nginx, and grub. For these, mostly used vimdiff afterwards to merge the maintainer's version into the local file.

2. Update apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. During upgraded, all third party repos are disabled and so afterwards, I had to go and re-enable or update them. Fortunately, I only had a few: google (chrome), steam, and weechat.

3. After updating, Ubuntu pro was not enabled for some reason (though I was enrolled and registered). To fix this, I did: "sudo pro enable livepatch" which also enabled the ESM repos.

That said, not everything was perfect:

1. On my laptop with a 1080p LCD, the default scaling was set to 125% instead of 100% due to it being a smaller screen (14in physically). I did not appreciate this... but I think once you set it to 100% it will be remembered.

2. The OSD for switching inputs is too small and so the text is truncated as shown in the video

3. Epiphany (aka #gnome web) was only version 49 and the font rendering was... blurry. Because of this, I switched back to #firefox (crazy I know) both on the desktop and mobile.

4. I am not a fan of the new default terminal ptyxis, so I installed #ghostty and am using that instead. My issues with ptyxis is that the window decoration does not follow the default color scheme and that it tries to do a bit too much. I did make a custom palette for ptyxis but it still did not behave right (ie. dimming), so I'm just using #ghostty (despite it having a bug with opening off centered with custom window width/height).

On the server side, the upgrades appeared to be fine... until I realized things were not working. In particular a few services stopped working due to #apparmor

1. I had to write a custom apparmor profile for mbsync as shown below.

2. For wireguard and znc, I could not figure out how to write an appropriate apparmor profile, so I installed apparmor-utils and then did "sudo aa-complain" on the corresponding apparmor profiles to put them in complain mode (ie. audit but don't enforce)

I think this last part (the stricter apparmor profiles) will probably bite a lot of people... particularly if you tend to use custom file locations for data and configs, so be warned!

Despite these hiccups, things appear to be running smoothly for now... :}

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/116259803633937674

Since the terminal emulator #Ghostty is in the news again1:

Remember that the creator of Ghostty wrote in March (on X) that, in his own words, he can't imagine being at a better place right now than in the board of directors of Vercel, next to Guillermo Rauch, who is a fascist MAGA supporter and met the war criminal Netanyahu in September 2025 to talk about the "greatness" of Israel and Israel's use of AI while Netanyahu is committing genocide.

1: They're leaving GitHub because even the biggest GitHub fanboys are now admitting that Microsoft's GitHub sucks and has issues all the time, preventing them from working.