When comparing Terminus vs Fluent Terminal, the Slant community recommends Terminus for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for Windows?” Terminus is ranked 3rd while Fluent Terminal is ranked 17th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro It looks just beautiful
Pro It's open source
This helps the community to move software forward and to make it even better.
Pro Under active development
Hyper development has basically stalled out.
Pro It comes with plugins
Pro Customizable
A lot of things can be easily configured, e.g. color theme, size, window frame behavior, tab location, cursor style, hotkeys, etc.
Pro Integrated GitBash, Cmd, PowerShell, and WSL
Pro Is cross-platform
Even the question was "...for Windows", it's nice if you can use your tools over different platforms.
Pro Integrates with git-bash with a simple toggle in the interface
Pro Excellent interface
At start opens last session terminals. Also has terminal tabs.
Pro Great looks
Support Microsoft Fluent Design's Acrylic effect for a blurred-behind effect on Windows.
Pro Fast and modern design
Pro Integration for Cmder and Powershell
Supports different shells, such as Cmder's clink and powershell.
Pro Fast
Pro Nice design
Great customized terminal but needs lot of other basic features too like scrollbar.
Cons
Con 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).
Con Some functions still fail
Con 80MB
It's huge. The amount of resources it consumes is not justifiable.
Con 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.
Con Easy to be confused with different brands of the same or similar name
Like Terminus (Russian production company), Terminus (font) or Termius (SSH client).
Con No multi window support
Can't split tabs into multiple windows.
Con No Scrollbars
Without scrollbar it is very difficult to navigate even the default Microsoft Terminal has a good scrollbar
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