Windows Terminal app runs multiple command-line tools, supports profiles, theming, and JSON tweaks, and WSL integration makes it the best.

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Windows Terminal has evolved into a feature-rich, modern terminal experience that rivals Linux counterparts. Key highlights include tabbed multi-tool support, split panes, granular profile configuration for PowerShell, Command Prompt, and WSL distros, deep WSL integration with GPU passthrough for AI workloads, and JSON-based configuration that can be ported across machines. The author argues it has become good enough to replace third-party terminal apps entirely.

The Windows Terminal is quietly becoming the best terminal on any OS

Today I wasted 30 minutes just trying to enable a feature so that duplicating a tab would actually open in the same directory. like it should have by default.
Honestly, Warp Terminal is miles ahead of Windows Terminal. Even with all its AI gimmicks and occasional identity crisis between being a terminal and pretending it’s an IDE

Yes, and the best way to use the Windows terminal is to use WSL within it :)

So it is full of features. Great. How performant is it compared to what exists in the Unix world?
(Powershell is also full of features but it’s honestly a needlessly complicated mess compared to other shells)