When comparing hyper vs Fluent Terminal, the Slant community recommends hyper for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for Windows?” hyper is ranked 16th while Fluent Terminal is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose hyper is:
Although not Windows-friendly. But nobody uses Windows terminal anyway.
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform due to electron browser-based foundation
Although not Windows-friendly. But nobody uses Windows terminal anyway.
Pro Built on electron, supports split panels and plugins
Pro Integration for Cmder and Powershell
Supports different shells, such as Cmder's clink and powershell.
Pro Great looks
Support Microsoft Fluent Design's Acrylic effect for a blurred-behind effect on Windows.
Pro Fast and modern design
Pro Fast
Pro Nice design
Great customized terminal but needs lot of other basic features too like scrollbar.
Cons
Con Made with Electron
It uses a considerable amount of resources, compared to other offerings.
Con Not as cross platform as advertised
Most features only work on Mac OS.
Con Incorrect rendering
Terminal window has visual artifacts.
Con No configuration UI; all options must be set via JSON
Con Still maturing as of December 2016
Folks noticed some issues in the 1.0 release cited here.
Con Difficult to find information about it, because of the confusion with hyperterminal
Con No Scrollbars
Without scrollbar it is very difficult to navigate even the default Microsoft Terminal has a good scrollbar