Last time I asked, someone said: "many features, but I like cmd-click to open path". After reading [1] I see that all it does is loading hipster-oriented "features" into your brain. Almost every feature is useless if you're doing any amount of actual work with decent cli tools. But for playing a hacker it is pretty cool.
There's nothing wrong with features that give you access to the wider operating system. Like it or not, the modern operating system is more than just terminals and CLI tools, and there's no reason to be condescending to those who don't live exclusively in the terminal.
A large part of what makes iTerm2 popular is how well it works in tandem with MacOS. Things like cmd+click to open (useful because you can use it on data that was spat out from a previous command invocation), paste filtering, and the fantastic built-in multiplexer/tabbing system.
That said, most of what makes MacOS users like iTerm2 just wouldn't be as useful on any other operating system, because its so tightly coupled to the wider OS.
Autocompletion is on <⌘-;> (spell check) instead of <Esc>, and it works strangely: "$ ls trunk/<cmd-;>" suggests other directories around trunk (like tags and branches), when it should list trunk's contents. Cmd-click on path cannot go to partial path. It also cannot "open in app", only in default app (^cmd-click doesn't help). I always can select or triple-click and "$ open [-a ...] <cmd-v><cr>" to do that; or stop being fool and just type "open ." and do whatever I need right in Finder. Colored tab's colors blend to barely visible when deactivated. Changing color themes in settings does nothing at all.
I'm not arguing that features aren't needed. I'm arguing the hyping of little-to-no working "features" that it tries to sell in place of REAL tools and .files that were there for decades.
I don't know if the "cmd-click to open path" is a feature that's already built in to any Linux terminal (though I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was, considering how many terminals Linux has).
You can probably do something like it with urxvt's perl extensions. You could also just double-click to copy the path to the X primary selection and then use a keyboard macro to open the path in the primary selection in your file browser, or whatever.
