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.
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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.
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!!!
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.
Wezterm is pro
Wezterm is available for windows. Still got some sharp edges. Windows terminal is pretty good though, even supports OSC 52 nowadays.
Windows Terminal
It is preinstalled on Windows 11
Wezterm
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more fluid, but it needs a lot of configuring to get the terminal behavior just right, and the settings UI is really outdated.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
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.
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 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.