FWIW, most Debians (which includes Ubuntu and Mint) have Ctrl+Alt+T set to open the default terminal program without needing to install anything else. This is usually reconfigurable in the system settings too if that’s an awkward stretch.
But I get that people like the drop-down terminals too, for which see also Yakuake and Guake.
I really like having a hotkey bound to the terminal window, so I can pop open a terminal, check something, and return to what I was doing.
https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/tilda
For a moment I wondered why I never bound a hotkey thusly, but it’s because I simply almost always have at least one terminal open in each workspace.
FWIW, most Debians (which includes Ubuntu and Mint) have Ctrl+Alt+T set to open the default terminal program without needing to install anything else. This is usually reconfigurable in the system settings too if that’s an awkward stretch.
But I get that people like the drop-down terminals too, for which see also Yakuake and Guake.
Before Tilde and friends, that’s what I use. I prefer having a drop-down with the same terminal session.
But that’s a handy default.
Why the hell did they misspell (and presumably mispronounce) tilde?