Time it takes to open a new terminal window

I just checked my timings: it takes about 0.41-0.45 seconds to open a new gnome-terminal window and about 0.55-0.65 seconds to open kitty. And it does bother me a bit that it takes so much time to open (I want it to be close to instant, like UI elements are responding to mouse/keyboard events). I want some suggestions for either speeding up window open process or some terminal alternatives that open faster (I use kitty for several years now). Maybe someone can share their timings, so I can compare mine to something (I didn't find anything about this issue on the Internet). Here's a MWE:

terminal=kitty # gnome-terminal
date +%s.%N > .start; $terminal -- sh -c 'echo "$(date +%s.%N)-$(cat .start)" | bc | cut -c 2- > .diff; rm -f .start'; cat .diff; rm -f .diff

My config: Laptop with i7-8550U, SSD, Ubuntu 20.04. P.S. I'm hoping soon to hop to Pop!_OS 22.04. After that, I'll check my timings again (perhaps they'll improve). --- **Update**: Tried with zero config using root: * kitty: 0.38-0.43 seconds * gnome-terminal: 0.41-0.46 seconds --- **Update 2**: Run ranger using kitty with root (0 conf.) and alacritty (cargo crate is user-wide; 0 conf.): * kitty: 0.50-0.57 seconds * alacritty: 0.37-0.43 seconds * alacritty without ranger: 0.22-0.28 seconds (*now we're talking*) kitty:

date +%s.%N > .start; kitty ranger --cmd 'shell echo "$(date +%%s.%N)-$(cat .start)" | bc | cut -c 2- > .diff; rm -f .start; kill $PPID'; cat .diff; rm -f .diff

alacritty:

date +%s.%N > .start; alacritty -e ranger --cmd 'shell echo "$(date +%%s.%N)-$(cat .start)" | bc | cut -c 2- > .diff; rm -f .start; kill $PPID'; cat .diff; rm -f .diff

P.S. I use [ranger](https://github.com/ranger/ranger) a lot (want to switch to [lf](https://github.com/gokcehan/lf)) and 99% I open it with a shortcut bound to kitty ranger command.