Fictional beginner: Maya Ortiz. A Mac laptop plus a desk monitor. First week using a terminal.
I installed Ghostty, opened it, typed pwd, and pressed Return. It printed the folder I was in.

What I noticed after my first ten minutes:
1. The text is too small. Ghostty started at 13 points and I was squinting within a minute. I pressed Command and the plus key three times, which made it 16 points, and ten lines were comfortable on my desk monitor. I use the laptop every day too, and its screen is smaller and sits farther from my eyes, but I have not tried 16 on it yet.
2. I work by a sunny window in the morning and late at night. My Mac switches between Light and Dark appearance on its own, but the terminal stays dark all day, and in the morning glare the dark window is hard to read.
3. I want Claude Code on one side of the window and a second terminal on the other side.
4. I am afraid of closing the window by accident while the agent is still working.
5. A friend's terminal has a see-through, blurred window. It looked cool, but I do not know whether it would help me read.
6. I do not care about colors beyond being able to read them, and I do not want to learn a list of keyboard shortcuts.