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Add to SafariWhen 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 3rd while Windows Terminal is ranked 12th.
Specs
Question Ranking
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 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.
Pro Easy and well documented JSON settings
Pro Microsoft is nailing on its features
Pro Open Source under the MIT License
Pro Multiple shell support
Pro Official Microsoft product
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 Unstable and buggy
Sometimes freezes and/or crashes.
Con Requires latest version of Windows 10
Con Configured via (mostly) documented json
Con Slow
Con Cannot have a mix of elevated and non elevated tabs
Con Doesn't have feature "Open Context Menu"
Poorly, this perfect terminal doesn't has this feature for Windows version.
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