What are you missing? Windows Console has undergone a complete overhaul in the last few years. With QuickEdit, copy and paste via keyboard, and reflow during window resizing, the Windows Console is pretty nice.
I use Windows Terminal about 10 hours a day. Windows Terminal has got tabs, Unix cut and Paste, emoji support (surprisingly how common outputting emoji is in tests suites etc).
The 0.5 version is usable as a day to day terminal.
Alternative most stable Terminal is Fluent which I've used for a couple of years now.
I'm currently using wsltty, which is mintty for wsl. It's decent, but it's terrible on fast scrolling texts (i.e. `docker logs` for a container without a maximum log size configured)
Alacritty is great if you need actual performance.
Hyper is actually the one with the overall best experience, but it is electron and the usual issues apply.
Fwiw, mobaxterm can also be configured to use wsl.
sixothree|6 years ago
Also this might be helpful for anyone wanting to follow along: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/
DuskStar|6 years ago
It looks rather interesting, if still in prerelease. (also, there's a trailer for it on YouTube - so weird [2])
0: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal-preview/9...
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE
nailer|6 years ago
The 0.5 version is usable as a day to day terminal.
Alternative most stable Terminal is Fluent which I've used for a couple of years now.
I have small reviews of about 8 of the Windows terminal apps at: https://github.com/mikemaccana/powershell-profile
richardlblair|6 years ago
Fwiw, I work on rails + react apps with this setup: - Hyper as my terminal - WSL2. Then just my zsh/vim/tmux setup - Docker's tech preview for WSL2
This has been pretty reliable so far. I'm sure I'll hit a snag at some point, but it has been a relatively smooth experience.
y4mi|6 years ago
Alacritty is great if you need actual performance.
Hyper is actually the one with the overall best experience, but it is electron and the usual issues apply.
Fwiw, mobaxterm can also be configured to use wsl.
pedrocx486|6 years ago