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Windows Terminal Alternatives
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AppSignal
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PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows
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kitty
If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.
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Kargo
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winget-cli
WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).
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wezterm
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
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sixel-tmux
sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics
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SaaSHub
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-02-09.
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Another GitHub outage in the same day
>I doubt that people think it's the engineering teams that are the problem
Did you forget Microsoft engineering response to Casey Muratori "Extremely slow performance when processing virtual terminal sequences"?
"I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively."
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
followed by Casey producing evidence for his 'extremely simple' claim in couple of days.
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The Terminal of the Future
Y'know, I spent a week investigating doing something similar with the Windows Terminal about 18 months ago: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/16495#issuecomm...
There's even more under the "Updates archive" expando in that post.
It was a pretty compelling prototype. But after I played with Polyglot Notebooks[1], I pretty much just abandoned that experiment. There's a _lot_ of UI that needs to be written to build a notebook-like experience. But the Polyglot notebooks took care of that by just converting the commandline backend to a jupyter kernel.
I've been writing more and more script-like experiments in those ever since. Just seems so much more natural to have a big-ol doc full of notes, that just so happens to also have play buttons to Do The Thing.
[1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...
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Terminal Latency on Windows
Because sometimes you also want faster ordinary command line console.
cat-ting bigger files or even using tools generating lots of text output is painful using default conhost. New Windows Terminal is more than just terminal, it also builds updated OpenConsole. Dont even have to install the whole thing, https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1817 you can just rename OpenConsole.exe to conhost.exe and force copy into Windows\System32
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Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering
This is "an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation".
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
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PuTTY Has a New Website
Fun fact: if you have Windows Terminal installed, it takes over `conhost.exe` and brings telemetry spying even to old apps which never had it before :D
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/commit/906edf7002b8ccf...
- Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences
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Edit is now open source
Please fix this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/16921 (or better yet, rewrite the whole thing in Rust)
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Deploying Mancala with Minikube — A beginners guide
Microsoft Terminal
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Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
[^1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
- Terminal: A Unified Platform for Windows Terminal and Console Host
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microsoft/terminal is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of Windows Terminal is C++.
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