Terminal vs Console

Terminal

A Simple Shell For Windows (by ATOMMAX-2001)

CPP C Terminal Cmd Windows Console Application

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Console

The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! [Moved to: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal] (by Microsoft)

Console Terminal Cmd Wsl windows-console Command-line windows-terminal

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Terminal		Console
	Project
1	Mentions	1
2	Stars	73,526
-	Growth	-
4.6	Activity	9.8
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
C++	Language	C++
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Terminal

Posts with mentions or reviews of Terminal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-15.

Cmd is so annoying, so i made a new shell
2 projects | dev.to | 15 Jul 2022

Terminal:Terminal

Console

Posts with mentions or reviews of Console. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-26.

AWESOME WINDOWS TOOLS
102 projects | dev.to | 26 Apr 2021

ColorTool - Set custom color schemes for the Windows Console with support for iTerm color schemes.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Terminal and Console you can also consider the following projects:

Duke3D_Mod_Manager - Duke Nukem 3D Mod Manager

Windows-Terminal-Guide - Windows Terminal Guide

emacs-wsl - Install and run Emacs with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) in Windows 10 or 11.

sdcv

scp-terminal - A terminal to navigate scp articles from https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

WSL-DistroLauncher - Sample/reference launcher app for WSL distro Microsoft Store packages.

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

mpv - 🎥 Command line video player

Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

Brackets - An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Arch-WSL - This is an unofficial Arch WSL based on the rootfs of arch docker images with a few packages installed to make things easy.

Kodi Home Theater Software - Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.