st on Xorg and foot on Wayland

I've been using xterm, urxvt, and st. Also tested alacrity, kitty, and wezterm. Your shell also plays a critical role in your terminal usage (but I won't deviate here).
For my use-case, the latter are overkill so I stayed with st. The only missing feature for me was image support even though I use it sporadically. To cover that I use a script that relies on ueberzug or ucollage if I need to browse folders.

I've wrote a small post about ucollage if you're interested.

Foot is the best

http://contour-terminal.org/

Foot because it's sway default. It's also configurable, has shortcuts and sixel support.

Good, updated article: https://itsfoss.com/linux-terminal-emulators/

ghostty looks promising, but it's in "closed beta" for now. When it's released, it will be public and open source. :)

I run multiple terminal apps. I thought I would try a few, and I never deleted any of them.

Xterm for me. As others have shown there are other ones that are newer than that but Xterm has become my favorite.

I consider st a great choice when using i3 or dwm. Customizing it takes time, but RAM usage is what I usually check and in case of st it is comically small.

all of the fancy features that other terminals provide, I get with Tmux, so any emulator for me. I like transparent themes and that's easy to set up in Alacritty, so that's what I usually get