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The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

270 mentions on Hacker News by 202 people: 37 stories, 233 comments · first 2018-03-30 · latest 2026-10-22

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  1. …emulator. There's a sea change happening here. It's a post-VGA world. Boldface means boldface. * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5682
    comment by JdeBP · 2020-09-30 · in Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
  2. try Windows Terminal https://aka.ms/terminal https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
    comment by fetbaffe · 2020-09-24 · in Ask HN: Mac/Linux devs, have you had success switching to Windows?
  3. …smooth experience. WSL2 has a completely new approach than WSL1, so compatibility is better. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by jpalomaki · 2020-09-06 · in WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. Still Not Using It?
  4. …the same server session. When I think about a "Terminal 2.0", I imagine something more like [this]( https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3121 ). Ideally though, whatever protocol for rich feedback and content embedding wouldn't be…
    comment by zadjii · 2020-08-05 · in Hackathon and Challenge to build a new Terminal – $20k investment
  5. Another option worth trying is Microsoft's Windows Terminal. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by ElMono · 2020-07-11 · in Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
  6. …particularly in long running tmux sessions. I believe they will get there with Windows terminal ( https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal ), I just don’t think they are there yet.
    comment by drvdevd · 2020-07-04 · in Targeted MitM attacks using information leakage in SSH clients [pdf]
  7. …the cmd.exe shell and Powershell. it's named Windows Terminal and actively being developed on https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by alltakendamned · 2020-06-29 · in Ask HN: Is there still a Windows shell replacement scene?
  8. …with Xterm. It really is a different landscape now :) The console subsystem is open-source at https://github.com/microsoft/terminal . Feel free to file bugs, complain, or what have you. That’s what we’re here for! To quote GP, “better late…
    comment by DHowett · 2020-06-26 · in Curl Wttr.in
  9. …pre-1.0 Windows Terminal 1.0 has been out for a bit, the current version is 1.0.1401.0 [0] [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/v1.0.1401...
    comment by Semaphor · 2020-06-19 · in CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
  10. …framebuffer front-end. It will be in version 1.41 of the toolset, but that is not out yet.) * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/6000 * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/6205 It brought me up short to be described as…
    comment by JdeBP · 2020-06-16 · in Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds
  11. I'll see your GNOME and raise you Microsoft. * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3177
    comment by JdeBP · 2020-06-16 · in Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds
  12. Windows Terminal is great. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal Just missing a Quake mode for me (summon from a screen edge with a keyboard shortcut), but that's being talked about for v2. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/653
    comment by modernerd · 2020-06-02 · in Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
  13. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by efficax · 2020-06-02 · in Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
  14. …polish just isn't there" [0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-windo... [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1564 [2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-... [3]:…
    comment by piggycurse · 2020-05-26 · in What Microsoft got right about power users, but not quite
  15. …collected and sent to Microsoft if you use "Enhanced" telemetry (which you don't need to use): https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5331#issuecomme...
    comment by nickjj · 2020-05-21 · in Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
  16. …the executable stem name might be a little more exposure than anyone's comfortable with, I've filed https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/6103 to yoink it. (It's been a long time and I still don't know how to format things properly…
    comment by DHowett · 2020-05-21 · in Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
  17. …I opened an issue on GitHub asking them if we could get an option to disable / toggle telemetry at https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5331 . It seemed reasonable considering VSCode is also a Microsoft product with an explicit…
    comment by nickjj · 2020-05-21 · in Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
  18. …and CMD, called "Terminal 1.0", which also comes with some aggressive telemetry built in: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/src/host/t... This also applies to newer releases of powershell, aka PS Core. I haven't tried…
    comment by cessor · 2020-05-21 · in Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
  19. …sure about YAML, but I was happy to see Windows Terminal use JSON for configuration instead of XML. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/user-d...
    comment by modernerd · 2020-05-19 · in Windows Package Manager Preview
  20. …of WSL-2) Most of the above also benefit from the work being done over at the new Terminal https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
    comment by mey · 2020-05-18 · in Termux and Android 10
  21. …Terminal app is very snazzy. I have only run into one problem with it, relating to using tmux. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/176 This is not a showstopper for me though, and I have been using it as my primary terminal…
    comment by bootlooped · 2020-05-06 · in Initial Impressions of WSL 2
  22. There are .msix releases on their Github page. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases
    comment by JonAtkinson · 2020-05-06 · in Windows Terminal v1.0 Release Candidate is out as version 0.11.1251.0
  23. Windows Terminal is made by the same guys working on WSL and works pretty well: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal You can get it via the Microsoft Store and it comes with support for connecting to WSL, Powershell, and cmd.exe out of…
    comment by d4mi3n · 2020-04-15 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability
  24. …on how good it is. Scott Hanselman has a good blog post on getting it set up though [2]) [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal [2] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/RubyOnRailsOnWindowsIsNotJust...
    comment by davefp · 2020-03-19 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux is making inroads with developers
  25. …to Windows Terminal as a console[0][1] and more does anyone else[2] apart from you it seems. 0: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/README.md 1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal-preview/ 2:…
    comment by laumars · 2020-03-18 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
  26. See: * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1564 * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/4232 Note the discussion of JSONC in the latter.
    comment by JdeBP · 2020-03-18 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
  27. Yeah, for now it is JSON only. Here is the issue, tracking the work on the Settings UI: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1564
    comment by DedlySnek · 2020-03-18 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
  28. …Terminal has a hard requirement on features only found in the latest versions of windows. See: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3843#issuecomme...
    comment by Hawxy · 2020-03-18 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
  29. …] }, { "command": "paste", "keys": [ "ctrl+v" ] } ] Please raise your opinions in this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/968
    comment by aliswe · 2020-03-18 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
  30. …title name. There is a github issue, but it does not look like they take this feature seriously: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1079 Edit: I am happy with it - they've been improving it constantly (for the last 4 months at…
    comment by EastSmith · 2020-03-18 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
  31. …critical UX features. Not a great situation. https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine/issues/639 https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/879
    comment by ripley12 · 2020-03-04 · in PowerShell 7.0
  32. Have you given Windows Terminal a try? It's in the store. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by garethrowlands · 2020-03-02 · in Little known features of iTerm2
  33. …issues in the github repo because, yes, Windows Terminal and Console are open-source! Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by bitcrazed · 2020-02-26 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  34. There's also this: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/143 (Weird slowness scolling text in the console ) """ It's caused by conhost.exe excessively hammering the registry to query the following two values:…
    comment by ModernMech · 2020-02-19 · in Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
  35. …is something visible in our public source, so you don't need to take my comment at face value. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by DHowett · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  36. https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal/blob/master/src/termin... https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/src/termin... See also the corresponding hpp files.
    comment by ddevault · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  37. …//gist.github.com/XVilka/a0e49e1c65370ba11c17 [2] https://terminal-wg.pages.freedesktop.org/bidi/ [3] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/538
    comment by xvilka · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  38. …it only blanks the visible viewport, and you can still scroll back through all the old stuff. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1305 There's a lot of information here that's over my head about how this actually isn't a bug, and…
    comment by recursive · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  39. They just started working on this https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/376 I don't think it'll make it for 1.0 as they are doing a new feature freeze.
    comment by zamadatix · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  40. And Vim is still not usable unfortunately: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1203
    comment by rootlocus · 2020-01-15 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release
  41. this one https://github.com/microsoft/terminal 30 seconds or so
    comment by asdfsf12323yc · 2019-12-23 · in Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018)
  42. …it yourself and install it on your own EDIT: you can download built packages from the Releases tab https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases
    comment by Kipters · 2019-12-23 · in Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018)
  43. …pport.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-... [4] https://microsoft.com/download/visual-c [5] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1386#issuecomme...
    comment by svnpenn · 2019-10-25 · in Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
  44. The new terminal is quite good. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by vips7L · 2019-10-20 · in Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
  45. …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:…
    comment by DuskStar · 2019-10-01 · in PuTTY 0.73
  46. I haven't tried it myself, but there's the new Windows Terminal if you aren't aware of it. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by dguo · 2019-08-01 · in iTerm2 3.3
  47. …by then, you potentially have the lag time most terminal users want to bypass. For windows, maybe https://github.com/microsoft/terminal will encourage more terminal innovation by bsd/linux -> windows crossovers. On Linux, try this:…
    comment by git-pull · 2019-07-21 · in Ask HN: How can we improve TUIs?
  48. https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal
    comment by figgis · 2019-07-01 · in Microsoft's Linux Kernel
  49. …to support assistive technology very soon. To follow progress please follow this issue on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/634 ABOUT WINDOWS TERMINAL The Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and…
    comment by karmakaze · 2019-06-23 · in Windows Terminal Preview Is Now Available for Download from Microsoft Store
  50. Their Github page lists only one download link to the Windows Store but you could build it too https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by hbcondo714 · 2019-06-23 · in Windows Terminal (Preview)