Lesson 1: Windows Terminal is the best terminal on Windows
charlesroper opened this issue · comments
Microsoft's new, official, native, open source Windows Terminal is the best terminal for Windows these days.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/
I would suggest wording along the lines of:
On Windows, Microsoft's own modern Windows Terminal is a fine choice.
It is slowly making its way to being the default in Windows. The latest preview builds have a setting to make it the default terminal right now, which is huge.
(also, retro mode is cool-as)
Sorry, just read this over again and it looks a bit like an advert - sorry!
I'm referring to the recommendation to use Hyper as a terminal for Windows, and do think people would be better served by Windows Terminal instead.
I've used many terminals on Windows over the years (mostly Console2, ConEmu, and Hyper) and they are all essentially elaborate hacks over the top of the old native console. The new Windows Terminal is a native, modern recreation of the old console. It has always been a difficult part of Windows to change, because it is such a deep and fundamental part of it, and so changing it could break swathes of enterprise architectures. So to have a real, native, modern terminal in Windows after all these years is HUGE.
I switched from using ConEmu and Hyper not long after Windows Terminal went into public beta and can 100% recommend it.