Windows Terminal
It is preinstalled on Windows 11
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Wezterm is available for windows. Still got some sharp edges. Windows terminal is pretty good though, even supports OSC 52 nowadays.
Konsole works on Windows, so why not use that?
I don’t see a download for windows on its page. Or did you mean build from source
It is still in Alpha
I used just plain command prompt for a long time when I was on Windows, but I did find a nice one called Tabby. The only problem is getting it to run as your default terminal.
Wezterm
Microsoft Terminal supports tabs and custom profiles.
It can host Azure CLI, PowerShell, CMD.exe, and Bash.
Windows ships with openssh that is usable in any of the supported cli.
I use it all the time for work to ssh into systems.
Microsoft's installed ssh has a phone home behaviour, it logs the server IP you connected to back to the MS mothership during your login.
Also it has smart suggestions system which I really like. Initially it was on by default iirc, but nowadays I think you have to turn it on yourself. What it does is basically after you did any command like "ssh root@xx.xx.xx.xx", it will remember that and next time you start typing "ssh" it will automatically provide full command as autocompletion suggestion. It's purely textual so it works with anything.
Are Windows users just now getting this feature? I've had autosuggestions in my oh-my-zsh config for years.
I've never seen it on Windows before Windows Terminal, but the latter has been around for a few years at least. I wouldn't doubt we can have this and much more with Linux shells.
I have tried this, but feels clunky to me. And the copy paste behaviour is kind of weird. Similar to cmd.
You can modify that in the configs.
Honestly, after using Windows and Linux side-by-side for 25 years, the new Windows Terminal is the best terminal emulator they ever made.
Wow, had to spend couple if hours configuring it. Almost as nice as konsole.
It also has the best promotional video I've ever seen for a terminal emulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE
Came here to say this. My daily driver is nushell in Microsoft terminal.
Nu crowd represent!!!
I use Windows Terminal nowadays. It feels more clunky and slow than say, foot or kitty on Linux, but it's functional.
Before, I used to use PuTTY for ssh sessions, it feels more fluid, but it needs a lot of configuring to get the terminal behavior just right, and the settings UI is really outdated. It also doesn't support WSL (unless you run sshd on WSL and ssh into the system).
Windows Terminal is slower and a bit weird to use
It does work though. Way better than gWSL
Wezterm is pro
Good O'l command prompt works great for me
I use wezterm. It's more configurable than the windows terminal and also works on linux. It has an appropriately linux-y feel imo.
Just straight vanilla powershell is pretty good
It's kind of slow to start, though. Coming from a Bash background, it gets tiresome.
I just use git-bash, I don't know how it gets installed though. Source tree maybe?