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I have seen lots of programmers use iTerm2 instead the default Terminal on Mac. But, what's the difference between these two shell terminals on earth? For me, they are the same, I didn't see any difference except the different colors.
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Terminal's split panes give you two views of the same window, while iTerm2's give you unlimited independent terminals in one tab. As always, if something is important to you, please file a detailed enhancement request or bug report at bugreport.apple.com . That's the best way to ensure that your voice is heard.
The Mac Terminal is a command line interface (CLI) for the macOS operating system (OS). Mac Terminal is typically used by network administrators and advanced technical users who want to initiate an action that is not supported by the operating system's graphical user interface (GUI).
Find the file in your finder, right click on it, choose get info, then expand the Open With tab. There you should find a dropdown menu on what to open those kind of files with. The default is terminal, but choose iTerm2 and click on change all.
iTerm2 is only available for Mac systems – it cannot be used on Windows or Linux systems. iTerm2 can only be installed on Macs that run on macOS 10.14 or later – the tool can be downloaded for free from its official site.
As of Lion's release, a lot of the features iTerm2 boasted for a while now are finally matched in Terminal. plus a more consistent full screen (Lion) support.
Check out this apple stackexchange question https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/25143/what-is-the-difference-between-iterm2-and-terminal
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http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features
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