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GNOME Terminal vs Ghostty: catalog facts
GNOME Terminal	Ghostty
Free Free and open source under the GPLv3.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence, created by Mitchell Hashimoto.
Linux	macOS, Linux
Integrated with the GNOME desktop Built on the widely used VTE terminal library	GPU rendering with genuinely native window chrome on each platform Very thorough terminal emulation, including the awkward edge cases
Linux only Conservative feature set compared with newer terminals	No Windows build Younger than the alternatives, with a smaller body of shared configuration
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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