If you are looking for alternatives to the terminal emulators that come by default in your favorite GNU / Linux distro, acritty it can be a good alternative. It is a free, open, cross-platform and fast terminal emulator that hides some quite innovative and interesting peculiarities. One of them is that it will use your GPU to render, which allows certain optimizations that are not available in many other emulators for Linux.
The Alacritty project focuses on improve performance, simplify and to facilitate the work of those who spend a lot of time in front of the console, and to be flexible to, for example, use other plugins such as a terminal multiplexer such as tmux, which we have already talked about in our LxA blog. And it is not satisfied with simply being fast, it has to be the fastest and that is why it makes this use of hardware so special. If you decide to install it on your favorite GNU/Linux distro, you should know that you will have to satisfy some previous dependenciesTherefore you need to install packages like Rust, since Alacritty makes use of this programming language. Also, you may find what is needed install some additional libraries on your distro if you didn't already have them installed, like cmake, freetype-devel, libfreetype6-dev, libfontconfig1-dev, and xclip.
Once satisfied, you can install Alacritty's own package that you will find in the Github website. Do not worry if the manufacturing process has not been very clear to you, if you access the link that I leave you and go to README, you will be able to find the process described step by step with all the commands that you must use to install it and leave it ready to enjoy. And if you allow me, just one more point, and it is that it is quite good, but for general use it may be deficient because some functionalities have not yet been added ...