kitty

kitty is a fast, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator from Kovid Goyal, the developer behind Calibre. GPLv3, for Linux, macOS and the BSDs. It pioneered its own graphics protocol, which lets programs draw real images inside the terminal, so tools like mpv can even play video there. True color and ligatures come standard.

Install through your package manager or grab the binary. Configuration lives in ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf. Built in: tabs, including vertical tabs as of 0.48, multiple windows, split layouts without a multiplexer, scrollback browsing in a pager, and kittens, small extensions for SSH with shell integration on remote hosts, image previews, a unicode picker, and theme and font choosers. Free across every team size, and there is nothing to roll out: people pick their own terminal.

The catch is that kitty wants you to live in a text file. The theme and font pickers help, but there is no preferences window, and getting it how you like takes real tuning time. WezTerm is the closest match on features. Pick kitty when you want images in the terminal and splits without a multiplexer layered on top.