Konsole vs ConEmu

Konsole can bookmark ssh and telnet sessions, directories, and it can open tabs in a folder for easy access.

Konsole supports split-view which splits the window into two (or more) konsole instances. This is very useful for people who work a lot on the terminal and don't want to spend time navigating between different windows or tabs.

Konsole supports true color and smooth font. This made konsole more fanstatic than other terminal emulators.

Konsole can be embedded into desktop so it's always easily accessible, but not in the way of other windows.

By going to file > save output, you can send all screen output to a text file.

Konsole can be accessed by pressing F4 in Dolphin, which is convenient for when the user needs to open the terminal in a particular spot of the file structure.

Most terminals in Linux don't support font ligature, while many modern fonts such as PragmataPro or Fira Code already have decent coverage of font ligature. Support for font ligature makes user experience and font management much easier (i.e. you don't need to keep two copies of the same font just to use in the console)

Users can associate each bookmark or SSH session with a custom icon, thus giving a visual hint to quickly identify a tab when a lot of tabs are open.

In particular solarized.

Konsole can monitor activities and notify the user through system notifications when a certain activity happens. This is a very customizable feature too: you can write scripts that can use this feature and notify you for whatever you want.

Konsole is usually very fast. It boots up very quickly and takes less than a second (averages to 0.25-0.59 seconds) to display files of up to 600 MB.

Profiles containing different settings can be created, saved, and loaded. Color schemes, window transparency, scroll bar, key bindings, start-up commands, window border, and menu bar can all be customized according to the user's needs.

Good menu to customize.

ConEmu allows running CMD, PowerShell, Cygwin, PuTTY, TCC/LE, etc.

You can configure a plethora of settings, including shortcuts and aesthetics (background image, transparency, colors, and fonts) per software.

ConEmu integrates well with Explorer.

Hotkeys allow the user to easily trigger an action and can be configured to their liking.

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.

If you have both ConEmu and DosBox installed, you can run DOS applications (and games) within a 64-bit OS environment.

ConEmu was originally designed as an updated front-end specifically for the FarManager, which means it has increased functionality.

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.

Not only does the status bar show detailed information out-of-the-box, it can be configured for your specific needs.

ConEmu is licensed under New BSD which is a class of very simple and liberal software licenses.

You can change the width and height of the console window without having to reset your session.

With -new_console and -cur_console switches you can run simple GUI apps in a ConEmu tab (or split).

You can set up ConEmu as a transparent, Quake-style console by following these instructions.

To put ConEmu in borderless mode:

Set Main -> Appearance -> Frame Width to 0

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.

ConEmu supports searching in all text that has been printed or entered in the console history.

ConEmu is under active development. Updates roll out almost daily with bugfixes and new features.

ConEmu offers multiple, configurable ways of interacting with text, including an ability to select text in a rectangular way.

The screenshot tool allows the user to capture their computer desktop or anything shown on their computer screen in a static image file.

Zero config gets you all your installed shells.

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.).

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.

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.