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Terminus vs Windows Terminal

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When comparing Terminus vs Windows Terminal, the Slant community recommends Terminus for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for Windows?” Terminus is ranked 4th while Windows Terminal is ranked 12th.

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Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking

Common Questions
#4
What are the best terminal emulators for Windows?
#12
Other Questions
#11
What are the best SSH clients for Windows?
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Terminus
Windows Terminal

Pros

Daniel Morgenstern

Pro
It looks just beautiful

Daniel Morgenstern

Pro
It's open source

This helps the community to move software forward and to make it even better.

Daniel Morgenstern

Pro
It comes with plugins

JM80
Daniel Morgenstern

Pro
Is cross-platform

Even the question was "...for Windows", it's nice if you can use your tools over different platforms.

David Aslan French

Pro
Under active development

Hyper development has basically stalled out.

Daniel Morgenstern

Pro
Customizable

A lot of things can be easily configured, e.g. color theme, size, window frame behavior, tab location, cursor style, hotkeys, etc.

PatientSatanaya
Daniel Morgenstern

Pro
Integrated GitBash, Cmd, PowerShell, and WSL

Jo Prime

Pro
Integrates with git-bash with a simple toggle in the interface

Monika
HonorableUkeMochi

Pro
Excellent interface

At start opens last session terminals. Also has terminal tabs.

storedbox

Pro
Is an *actual* terminal emulator--what a Linux user would expect--like xterm.

Not a command prompt/processor (i.e. shell) but a host for such applications.

Svjatoslavs Krasnikovs
PerfectNemain

Pro
Microsoft is nailing on its features

storedbox

Pro
Open Source under the MIT License

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/

storedbox

Pro
Official Microsoft Product

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Cons

Monika
AdventurousOlodumare

Con
Some functions still fail

Alex
SkillfulBodbDerg

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).

ThoughtfulSandas

Con
80MB

It's huge. The amount of resources it consumes is not justifiable.

Purple Scientist
Svjatoslavs Krasnikovs

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.

Purple Scientist

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).

Monika
PerceptiveMeili

Con
No multi window support

Can't split tabs into multiple windows.

storedbox

Con
Unstable and buggy

Sometimes freezes and/or crashes.

storedbox

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Configured via (mostly) documented json

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/cascadia/SettingsSchema.md

storedbox

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Requires latest version of Windows 10

 

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