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Cygwin
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Additional packages available via Cygwin Ports project
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Many incompatibilities
A lot of tools don't actually work with Cygwin, and documentation is often sparse, so for many use cases, it's worth the small bit of extra effort to just run a full virtual machine.
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Better default terminal
Cygwin's default terminal "Mintty" is far better than CMD.
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You can run graphical applications
It has X Server.
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PuTTY
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Free
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Only one session per window
Cannot open a second session in the same window (you need multiple windows).
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De facto standard client for SSH, Telnet and Rlogin on Windows
PuTTY is one of the oldest and most popular clients. It has earned the trust of a great number of users over a long period by being reliable, offering useful features and helpful support. It got into the 15 Essential Open Source Tools for Windows Admins list by InfoWorld.
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Can not save passwords
Anyway, you can use "PuTTYgen" to generate a key pair, then use "Pageant" to do a password-less SSH remote login.
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Can be used on any Windows computer, even without admin rights
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Lacks features
It is JUST an SSH client. There are many other options with built in X-servers, Multitabbing, etc.
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Source code available
Full source available. Compile and modify it yourself.
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Ugly design, too simple
Looks very dated. Does the basic functions very well, but not much more.
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Lightweight and portable
Doesn't require much resources (memory and hard-disk). Can even be run on a system by just downloading without install.
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No global settings
If you want to change a setting for all your connections, you'd have to do it individually.
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Organizing sessions
Does not have features for organizing session connections (like folders). If you have 5-10 connections that's fine. But if there are 30-50 connections - that becomes a nightmare.
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Tedious logging/tracing
Its tedious to set up logging and tracing (e.g. for serial connections).
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No login scripting
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Platforms:
Windows, GNU/Linux
License:
MIT
Initial Release:
1999-01-22
Latest Release:
2021-07-17
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OpenSSH
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The Reference SSH Client
If you find samples or tutorials about SSH, they almost always refer to OpenSSH. It bascially defines what SSH is.
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No host list
Has no functions to manage huge numbers of hosts.
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One of the most trustworthy development teams on the web
The development team of OpenSSH is part of the OpenBSD ecosystem. Their implementation is basically today's technical reference for any SSH client.
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No way to organize SSH connections
No way to organize SSH connections.
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Available on virtually any platform
MacOS. Windows. Core component on any Linux flavor.
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Command line tool
It can be difficult to use from a command line interface.
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Standard implementation that documentation for all other tools assumes you have installed already
A lot of other tools (e.g. git) are based on this for file transfer.
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License:
BSD-3-Clause
Type:
Remote access
Initial Release:
December 1, 1999
User Interface:
Command-line
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WinSSHTerm
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Freeware
WinSSHTerm is free for anyone to use.
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Not a true terminal emulator
It's a PuTTY interface and it's mostly used to access remote machines through ssh, so it may not be very suitable for working on a local machine.
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Keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts are especially valuable for professionals.
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Supports X Server
There is easy, automatic integration with X Server and starts/stops can take place with the launch/exit of WinSSHTerm.
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Supports file transfer
The user can start a WinSCP session inside WinSSHTerm, without the need to duplicate the session in WinSCP.
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Highly portable
The user can run WinSSHTerm from a USB drive on different computers.
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Ready for production use
There are no annoying bugs in WinSSHTerm. Navigation tools and keyboard shortcuts are a great time saver, especially if you have to manage multiple connections.
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SecureCRT
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4
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VT220 emulation
Some of us still need actual VT220 emulation to log into OpenVMS machines. SecureCRT does a superior job at it.
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Not free
Paid product. Some nice additional Cygwin type features and server version are integrated, but for most users the feature set probably does add enough value for a paid only client.
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Buttons bar
SecureCRT while not free has the ability to make common commands in to button for faster command processing. Commands like: exit, clear, :wq!, ls -lha and the etc.
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Expensive
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Scriptable via Python API
Has a Python API to control most aspects of the terminal and sessions. Scripts can be bound to buttons, menu items, and keyboard shortcuts.
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Puts emphasis on security
SecureCRT has strong data encryption and secure authentication through the support of password and public keys.
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Platforms:
Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux, iOS
License:
Proprietary
Latest Release:
2021-05-20
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cmder
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11
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Extends the powerful ConEmu
Cmder builds on ConEmu console emulator, by adding enhancements from clink (such as bash-style completion in cmd.exe and PowerTab in powershell.exe) and optionally extending it with msysgit, that brings Unix tools to Windows.
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Issues with non-unicode characters
'ls' command can have issues with non-unicode characters such as cyrillic. As of 1.1.2, 'dir' can be used as a substitute that will properly display non-unicode characters. Unfortunately, it's an issue with msysgit that isn't being officially addressed (a workaround is available) thus no official ETA on the bugfix is available.
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Minimal and portable version available
There is a portable version of cmder available which is just 10 MB in size. It can be put on an external device, like a USB stick, and run off it. There's no installation required.
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Not as portable as advertised
Even though cmder is advertised as a "portable terminal emulator for Windows", it's not adequately minimalistic to be considered truly portable. In fact, one of the dependencies required to use it is the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.
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Has built-in Quake style drop-down mode
This is an extremely useful mode whereby the console hides and shows on ctrl+~ similar to a gaming console. This feature is inherited from ConEmu.
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Issues with escape codes
Sometimes it doesn't interpret terminal escape codes correctly and the output gets mangled using tmux over ssh, for instance.
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Works nicely with command line applications
Such applications include CMD, Powershell, and MinTTY.
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Slower than ConEmu
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File explorer integration
Cmder can be added to the right-click menu, allowing the user to start a terminal session from the selected directory with a "Cmder Here" command. The functionality can be enabled by opening up a terminal with administrator privileges, navigating to the Cmder folder and executing .\cmder.exe /REGISTER ALL.
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There is no ligatures support
As though the fonts like Fira Code or Hasklig work in Cmder, this enhancement for the Windows command prompt doesn't display ligatures in the above-mentioned fonts.
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Monokai color scheme
Cmder pretties up the default look of ConEmu using Monokai color scheme out of the box and allows flexible color and transparency schemes, including custom out-of-focus opacity.
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Lots of conflicts with OS keybindings
By default, things lke ctrl-w will close your window unexpectedly when using nano or trying to delete a word in bash.
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Integrates with graphical applications
Portable GUI applications can be integrated directly into the interface of the terminal emulator. For example, it's possible to integrate ST3 with cmder by moving the portable version of ST3 to /cmder/vendor/ and editing alias file in /cmder/config/aliases to include subl="%CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe" $1 -new_console:s75V. Now writing subl in the command line will open ST3. The alias of subl can be changed to whatever's needed and similarly, the -new_console option's parameters can be changed to alter how the text editor integrates with the terminal emulator. It can be horizontal or vertical splits of varying sizes or tabs, etc.
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The portable (mini) version does not have UNIX commands
UNIX command support is only available for the full version.
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Works with WSL bash.exe
CMDer works great with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Just change your startup task to point to the bash.exe file.
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Very slow
Scrolling in vim lags the screen and can crash.
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Highly flexible
Integrates with: cygwin mintty powershell msysgit
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Works with ZSH and Oh My ZSH through WSL (using ubuntu 18.04)
Set ZSH as shell using "chsh" command, and launch the console using "ubuntu1804" command.
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Works with VS Code, Hyper and IDEs
Cmder can be used with popular editors such as VS Code, which delivers aliases and clink as well as its color scheme to VS Code. It can also be used without ConEmu and Hyper as an alternative terminal emulator, which makes customizing the UI through NPM plugins much easier.
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KiTTY
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Includes additional features over PuTTy
Sessions filter Shortcuts for pre-defined command The session launcher Automatic logon script URL hyperlinks Running a locally saved script on a remote session Send to tray Transparency Quick start of a duplicate session SSH Handler: Internet Explorer integration pscp.exe and WinSCP integration New command-line options
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No centralized configuration
Each session holds its own configuration of all features. This means that if one wants to change a configuration common to all sessions (say, the terminal font), it has to be changed in each stored session separately. A better solution would be to have a default configuration and store only the changed elements for each session (both configurations would be merged, with e priority on the specific one).
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Startup sessions
Support start-up sessions which allow you to specify the window/tab layout, working directories, and programs to run on startup.
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No tabbed sessions
No built-in support for tabbed sessions. Requires an add-on.
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Source Code Available
Source code is available so you could modify or review changes.
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No mouse support in alternative screens
Like vim, less, etc.
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Can store login credentials
Ability to store passwords/passphrases locally.
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Clickable URLs
URLs are parsed and can be clicked.
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Auto login script
Automatic processing of commands after conncetion was made.
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True Color support
Supports True Color, so software like Vim can display a really nice pallet.
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Portable version available
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Background image
Ability to overlay the terminal background with an image.
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Unicode
Uses Unicode for the best character compatibility.
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Tabby Terminal
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Some functions still fail
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It looks just beautiful
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Graphics bugs on all platforms
On Windows 10 and Debian 11, Debian 12 the graphics starts bug after some usage. It always happens, even on different computers.
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It's open source
This helps the community to move software forward and to make it even better.
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Slow with input lag
Sadly, Electron strikes again. The input lag is noticeable and annoying. Startup also takes like 2 seconds or more (On an i7 from 2016 with SSD).
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It comes with plugins
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80MB
It's huge. The amount of resources it consumes is not justifiable.
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Customizable
A lot of things can be easily configured, e.g. color theme, size, window frame behavior, tab location, cursor style, hotkeys, etc.
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Cannot remove the default profiles
For example, you installed Arch Linux for Windows Subsystem for Linux some time ago, but now you have deleted it and currently use Ubuntu on WSL. After that, if you decide to try this terminal emulator, you'll find Arch there without an option to remove the profiles already included in Terminus.
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Is cross-platform
Even the question was "...for Windows", it's nice if you can use your tools over different platforms.
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Under active development
Hyper development has basically stalled out.
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Excellent interface
At start opens last session terminals. Also has terminal tabs.
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Integrated GitBash, Cmd, PowerShell, and WSL
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Integrates with git-bash with a simple toggle in the interface
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MIT
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ZOC Terminal
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Modern look
ZOC has a modern design.
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Hard to configure
It does not detect the installed shells (PowerShell, CMD, etc) automatically.
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An actual "Terminal Emulator"
It's an actual terminal emulator (in the sense that it emulates a terminal) and not just a local console window app.
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Options creep
It has so many options that it's hard to find the one you need.
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Scriptable
Zoc provides complete automation of the client using its macro scripting.
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Not free
Zoc requires a commercial license in order to use it, implying that it's not free.
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Flexibility in platform support
Originally developed for OS/2 (as Zap-O-Comm), Zoc is currently available for Windows and Macintosh.
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Can view and send to all sessions at once
Offers a thumbnail view of all session in thumbnails and type commands to all sessions at the same time.
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Supports serial and dial-up connections
In addition to telnet, ssh, and rlogin, ZOC supports direct serial connections, modem dialing, and named pipes.
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Tabbed sessions allows for easy navigation
Tabbed sessions mean that multiple items can be contained within a single window and can be easily navigated by the user.
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Hideable UI
Zoc allows for every UI component except the title bar to be hidden. All features are accessible through the context menu.
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Auto-Highlight feature
Feature to search for text bits in the data stream and highlight them with color/background.
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Shellngn - Cloud Based SSH Client
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SSH & SFTP in your browser
Since this tool is cloud-based, there's no need to download and install anything. You can simpy run it from the browser.
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Expensive
$3.90 per month
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RDP/VNC Support
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Not free
In fact not only not free, but only available at a subscription basis.
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Always up to date
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Sluggish output
It's ok for a quick session, but compared to native apps it's output is slow.
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Your devices are available on any device
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Lack of configurability
Not enough options to trim it to your needs.
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Tunnel support
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Can't access LAN servers
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RDP/VNC In your browser
Remote desktop your servers from the browser.
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Telnet Support
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Xshell 6
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Connections management
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Not free
The subscription costs $89 per year.
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Has tabs
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No stable portable version
Any portable version present is wrapper. It moves files from portable folder to appdata and backward, which often cause dataloss
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Compose bar to send a string to multiple servers at once
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Local shell interface to control Xshell
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Great option for enterprises
Xshell 6 caters to enterprises with features such as multi-tab UI, dynamic port forwarding, scripting support, support for ASCII as well as non-ASCII characters, etc.
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Can use any system font
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Tunneling bar
Channel monitoring and dynamic port forwarding.
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User defined key map support
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Task automation with VB script
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ConEmu
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Can be used with any shell
ConEmu allows running CMD, PowerShell, Cygwin, PuTTY, TCC/LE, etc.
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Default look is somewhat unpleasant
In order to get a more pleasant look and feel, you may need to customize ConEmu yourself.
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Highly customizable
You can configure a plethora of settings, including shortcuts and aesthetics (background image, transparency, colors, and fonts) per software.
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Layering of features per tab works with limited functionality
Can't do all of this, but it can theme colors per terminal: Tab 1: I want it transparent, with a fixed background, with a certain color scheme, running powershell Tab 2: Similar thing, but different bg, theme, and running posh as admin Tab 3: Similar thing, but different bg, theme, and running cygwin
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Explorer integration
ConEmu integrates well with Explorer.
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Bad scrolling support
The mouse wheel scroll doesn't transfer to terminal applications by default. It moves to the blank space instead of scrolling actual text content. This is especially true for ConEmu where there doesn't seem to be a way to make it work better.
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Highly configurable hotkeys
Hotkeys allow the user to easily trigger an action and can be configured to their liking.
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It is slow
If you have a console process that outputs a lot, ConEmu will be the slowest option. Everything else will be faster. Even Terminus, which is, common, a packed web browser app. In my tests if ConEmu takes one unit of time, Terminus and Windows Terminal will be 0.6, FluentTerminal 0.35, Alacritty 0.3.
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Tab support
ConEmu allows the user to create tabs (Win+W by default) for separate instances of the terminal window, allowing them to have both multiple shells and multiple instances of the same shell open. The user can also set up a startup directory for each tab and run each tab as a specific user or rights.
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Poor performance with WSL
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Run DOS applications with DosBox
If you have both ConEmu and DosBox installed, you can run DOS applications (and games) within a 64-bit OS environment.
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Screen scrapes from real console
ConEmu always runs the standard Windows console - ‘real console’, but it is hidden most of time. This adds overhead, introduces another layer of complexity, and frequently creates irritating strange glitches (lost keys, messed up spacing) for heavy users.
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Integrates with FarManager
ConEmu was originally designed as an updated front-end specifically for the FarManager, which means it has increased functionality.
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Only simple, black and white emoji
It's not much, but is sad we can't get colored emojis. May change soon, I'm working on a PR.
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Progress Bar integration
ConEmu permits the user to check up on the progress of an operation with a quick glance at the taskbar, without needing to bring the app to the foreground.
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No remote connections
A terminal emulator should emulate a terminal, i.e. a local input/output device to a remote computer. ConEmu can only run local processes in a window (albeit nicer than the local command shell window).
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Useful status bar details
Not only does the status bar show detailed information out-of-the-box, it can be configured for your specific needs.
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Free and open source
ConEmu is licensed under New BSD which is a class of very simple and liberal software licenses.
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Dynamically resize the window
You can change the width and height of the console window without having to reset your session.
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Run simple GUI apps within a ConEmu tab
With -new_console and -cur_console switches you can run simple GUI apps in a ConEmu tab (or split).
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Transparent, Quake-style mode
You can set up ConEmu as a transparent, Quake-style console by following these instructions.
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Supports borderless mode
To put ConEmu in borderless mode: Set Main -> Appearance -> Frame Width to 0
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Supports Jump Lists
ConEmu allows pinning commands to Jump Lists (available in Windows 7 & 8; accessed by right-clicking the application in the taskbar), giving you quick access to common tasks and configurations.
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Search in console input/output history
ConEmu supports searching in all text that has been printed or entered in the console history.
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Actively developed
ConEmu is under active development. Updates roll out almost daily with bugfixes and new features.
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Box selection
ConEmu offers multiple, configurable ways of interacting with text, including an ability to select text in a rectangular way.
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Built-in screenshot tool
The screenshot tool allows the user to capture their computer desktop or anything shown on their computer screen in a static image file.
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Auto discovers your shells
Zero config gets you all your installed shells.
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Closest replacement for iTerm2 users
Supports many of the features that iTerm users have become accustom to (like multiple tabs, highlighting, configurable scroll bars, decent support for themed color pallets to support basic/solarized/etc.).
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Works well with Vim/Neovim on Windows
There were issues before that forced me to use graphical versions of Vim/Neovim, but latest versions of Conemu + Neovim, seem to be working much better on Windows now.
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Works well with WSL/Tmux/Neovim/SSH
There were issues before in the WSL usage scenario that forced me to use an X gui terminal using X forwarding, but now Conemu is working great, and is the only terminal I use from Windows/WSL.
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Take Command
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Text processing tools
Regular expression pattern enabled tools for text filtering, searching, substitution, and conversion.
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Powerfull scripting language
Powerfull scripting language with a lot of commands and predefined variables.
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File compression tools
File compression tools, e.g. bz2, gz, tar, 7zip and zip.
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FTP Command Line Client
Command line driven FTP client.
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Batch Debugger
It has a GUI Debugger for Batch files as well the own scripting language (BTM).
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TeraCopy
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Sometimes clashes with 7 zip
From my experience, TeraCopy does not do well in conjunction with 7zips. It seems to error on some systems when you do a drag-and-drop extract.
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Faster file deletion
It deletes files much much faster than built in Windows file manager.
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Can check files for copy errors
TeraCopy can automatically check/verify the copied files for errors, by calculating their CRC or other checksum/hash value.
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Seamless shell integration
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Skips badly copied files
TeraCopy skips badly copied files during the copying process, and then displays them at the end of the transfer "Verify" with checksum/hash, so you can see which files to re-copy. See also, OpenHashTab for Windows and DeadHash for Windows, Linux, Android.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac
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Proprietary
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WizTree
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Pros
4
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Exceptionally fast for NTFS drives
Because it reads the master file table (MFT) directly from NTFS file system.
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Intended for NTFS only
It'll work with any other file system but with the same speed as any generic space analyzer.
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Free
There is no limitation to using it.
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Multiple view such as tree view, tree map, extension view, file view
Unlike other similar apps, which usually only offer single view, this app offers multiple views.
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Handles "hard linked" files correctly - doesn't count them more than once
WizTree is faster and much more accurate than all the others as it properly handles hard linked files (doesn't count them more than once) so the total allocated size reported by WizTree will actually match the space used on the drive as reported by Windows.
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Platforms:
Windows
Interface:
GUI
Treemap:
Yes
Path exclusion:
Yes
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Process Hacker
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10
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See programs with active network connections
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It might be a little intimidating for some users
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Real-time information on disk access
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10x more detail and information about usage of PC resources and processes
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Can be set as your default task manager
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Detailed overview of system activity with highlighting
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Can create, edit and control services
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Can track which processes are using a file
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Open source
You can find the code here.
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View detailed stack traces with kernel-mode
Supports WOW64 and .NET.
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Made with Electron
It uses a considerable amount of resources, compared to other offerings.
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Cross-platform due to electron browser-based foundation
Although not Windows-friendly. But nobody uses Windows terminal anyway.
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Not as cross platform as advertised
Most features only work on Mac OS.
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Built on electron, supports split panels and plugins
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Incorrect rendering
Terminal window has visual artifacts.
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No configuration UI; all options must be set via JSON
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Still maturing as of December 2016
Folks noticed some issues in the 1.0 release cited here.
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Difficult to find information about it, because of the confusion with hyperterminal
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Babun
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Comes with bash and zsh out of the box
Babun comes with both bash and zsh out of the box. This gives both beginners and advanced users the choice of which shell to run.
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Dead project
Babun is not maintained and uses an old version of Cygwin from 2015.
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Comes with a package manager
Babun come with a package manager called Pact, which is an extremely simple yet powerful package manager similar to apt-get or yum for Linux.
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Cannot exit node.js programs
When trying to exit a node program using Ctrl-C, the process doesn't actually exit.
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Easy access to powerful zsh features through integrated oh-my-zsh
Oh-my-zsh is a dead simple configuration and management for zsh (which is a pretty powerful shell), allowing even first time users to take advantage of the most powerful features it offers.
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No tabs
Babun has no support for tabs.
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Extends Cygwin functionality
Babun is built on top of Cygwin, meaning that Unix or Linux applications can be compiled and run on a Windows operating system from within a Linux-like interface.
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No spinner when installing packages with gems or npm
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Decent, out-of-the-box remoting to Unix and others
256 color xterm is simple, but many programs simply do it wrong. Babun uses well-established command-line programs that do it right, and which then wrap them in a nicely themed package.
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Does not work with Ansible
Executing Ansible modules (which helps configure and manage computers that combine multi-node software deployment) causes errors to arise.
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Sophisticated auto-completion
FireCMD supports command auto-completion. Once you start typing a command, you can press the tab key to auto-complete it.
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Not free
Although there's a free trial available, FireCDM is not free and costs $29.
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Recursive and persistent aliases
FireCMD allows users to create up to 500 aliases.
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HTML and CSS support makes for greater usability
HTML is a very flexible and user-friendly language for writing web pages, while CSS allows for the content of a HTML document to be separated from the style and layout of that document.
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A free trial is available
A free trial of FireCMD is available for users to try out.
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Too complicated
It's complicated to use as it requires moving files to/from wsl to base windows.
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Light resource usage unlike virtual machines
There's no VM overhead because WSL is not a VM.
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You can't mix and match installations - utilities added to the subsystem are only available in the subsystem
If you install node in the Windows subsystem, it is not available in Windows, only in the subsystem and vice versa.
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Includes common UNIX utilities
Windows Subsystem for Linux comes with common UNIX utilities such as grep, awk, etc.
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Supports multiple Linux distributions
WSL supports multiple Linux distros, and you can use the distro's package manager (e.g. apt-get on Ubuntu) to install other tools and binaries.
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Runs native Linux tools
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