Guake or Tilda: which one is better?

So, which Quake terminal-style terminal is "better"?

By "better", I mean whatever you believe "better" means. Be it faster, more lightweight, more feature-rich, more aesthetically pleasing (by default/out of the box), easier to use, etc. etc.

Guake is pretty good on its own, really. I don't use these services though.

Edit: Tilda is technically lighter than Guake.

Why do you like it? Does it have any features (default keyboard shortcuts, etc.) that you are particularly fond of? Or is it because it "just works".

First version of that style of terminal when I started using Gnome back in the day. I then switched to Tilda. I never really went further than that. I now use URXVT as my main terminal. (Not drop down.)

Why did you switch?

back when I used those, Tilda was much lighter on system memory and storage.

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Tilda supports more colors.

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alternatively, if you use windows, you can use conemu and get the quake style feature also. Very handy for powershell users.

Yea Guake doesn't support Truecolor, although I haven't personally seen any difference on terminals that do support it (vim looks the same etc). Doesn't look like many programs actually leverage the capability.

Btw, found this cool way to test if your terminal supports truecolor:

awk 'BEGIN{
    s="/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\"; s=s s s s s s s s;
    for (colnum = 0; colnum<77; colnum++) {
        r = 255-(colnum*255/76);
        g = (colnum*510/76);
        b = (colnum*255/76);
        if (g>255) g = 510-g;
        printf "\033[48;2;%d;%d;%dm", r,g,b;
        printf "\033[38;2;%d;%d;%dm", 255-r,255-g,255-b;
        printf "%s\033[0m", substr(s,colnum+1,1);
    }
    printf "\n";
}'

Source: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728

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It's just for terminal output. Plus you can have bright colors, so with transparency you can read text on any background.

I've recently updated to Mint 18 on Ubuntu 16.* and the new version of Guake is great. Really customisable, allowing you to change where tabs are and their default names etc. I'd definitely recommend it.

Guake looks pretty. Unless you are running a really low RAM machine or are ocd on memory usage, guake is just a nice thing to have.