{
  "id": 17613648,
  "title": "Kwi Being Developed As New KDE Terminal Emulator With 3x To 35x Performance",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/kwi-being-developed-as-new-kde-terminal-emulator-with-3x-to-35x",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-01T13:41:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Kwi-Terminal-Emulator"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator, is being developed with the promise of 3x to 35x performance improvements over existing options, according to early benchmarks. However, the project is still in its infancy, with limited testing by a small group of users and no official version v0.1.0 yet. This means users should expect bugs and should not compare Kwi to Konsole, which has benefited from 29 years of development and is used by millions daily. Michael Larabel, principal author of Phoronix.com and founder of the site in 2004, is the lead developer of Kwi. He has authored over 20,000 articles on Linux hardware, performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Larabel can be reached through Twitter, LinkedIn, or MichaelLarabel.com.",
  "summary": "A new KDE terminal emulator is in development as a modern alternative to Konsole. Kwi is this new terminal app being built atop the Ghostty library...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}