Ever wanted a terminal emulator application that can do all tasks and never have to switch between different terminal applications ? Then , Your wait is over .
I know how annoying it is to switch between different SSH clients , and terminal emulators to get things done . Specially if you are a beginner , you want something that can be used as a ssh client , a full time terminal emulator and also should be available on all major platforms .
“Tabby ” is a perfect tool for all of those who need not just terminal but , also a SSH client , a serial client and so on.
Lets install Tabby on your favorite OS and checkout its amazing features .
Get Tabby .
Contents
Overview
As a Linux and Open Source app enthusiast and a productivity nerd , I am in constant search of applications and tools that can increase my speed and efficiency by Either making things faster or convenient or BOTH .
Tabby is one of those applications that I liked in first use .
Generally , we install Terminal Application on windows . Its already installed in case of MAC and Linux . And then we install some separate SSH client like putty or remmina or gnome boxes etc . On top of that if we need some FTP client we have to install winscp on windows . Also , if you are a WSL , POWERSHELL and git bash user , it becomes hell lot cluttered to manage things in an efficient way . And Comes cherry on cake , the docker . Now things get even worse .
Don’t worry , if you are facing same issue , Tabby is at rescue .
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Features
Tabby is not just a modern terminal application , its a toolbox that help you to be much more productive with day to day tasks like managing SSH credentials , managing all shells , docker and wsl instances from a single application .
Following is a list of features that Tabby provides .
Modern Terminal
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Tabby has , modern , elegant , intuitive and user friendly interface that makes navigating easier .
Profiles and Connections
This feature allows user to manage multiple connections from tabby
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Elegant Color schemes with Acrylic Effect
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I spend lot of time steering at terminal . So I always prefer a good looking and modern terminal and that is what tabby delivers . It has huge collection of prebuilt themes and option to create custom themes too.
Plugins
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Tabby Comes preinstalled with many plugins and has option to get more from its repository of available plugins .
Although , the amount of plugins is limited , its growing with time and repository already contains all the essential ones already.
In Built Vault
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Having an encrypted vault backed into the terminal is a blessing . This reduces efforts of storing credentials in separate application , getting them to SSH client and all .
Its FOSS
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This is by far the most important but under valued feature of any open source application . Market if flooded with cheap SSH clients , weird terminal emulators and those which make things easy , are wither paid , cloud based or contains ads . But Tabby is FOSS application , contains no ads or promotions . That makes it so cool.
Cross Platform
Although Tabby is meant to replace windows terminal , its available on all major platforms , ubuntu , fedora & mac .
Pros AND Cons
No matter how cool any tool may sound , everything has its pros and cons .And Tabby is no exception .
Pros
Tabby has many pros listed below .
- Cross Platform
- built in SSH client
- Plugins
- Themes
- Modern UI
- Secure Vault
Cons
Lets discuss some of the cons of Tabby so that you can decide whether to ditch your existing terminal emulator and switch to Tabby .
- Built With Electron JS and web technologies
- High memory usage
- slow Loading at first launch
- Some customization options missing depending on Platform used
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As you can see ,as Tabby is built with Electron JS and Web technologies such as HTML CSS JS , it uses lot more RAM space than a native terminal . In this case , windows terminal uses around 50-60 MB of ram and Linux terminals using less than that.
So if you have less RAM in your machine , i would not suggest you to use it as a primary terminal but it you use SSH clients and terminal then its fine .
Now that you know the pros and cons of Tabby, you can check it out and decide whether to switch or not .
So that’s It for today guys , see you in the next one . If you have anything to say , comment section is always open .
Very Helpful ! Thank you Mr.Mirge!
Thank you for your feedback.
Informative & structured. Thanks!
thank you