When comparing Fluent Terminal vs Extraterm, the Slant community recommends Fluent Terminal for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for Windows?” Fluent Terminal is ranked 19th while Extraterm is ranked 33rd. The most important reason people chose Fluent Terminal is:
Supports different shells, such as Cmder's clink and powershell.
Specs
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Pros
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.
Pro speed
not the fastest ever, but for me its a good comprimise of features vs performance
Pro Cross platform
Pro Supports tab, splits and panes
You can set up your own layout with multiple splits and tabs.
Pro Shell integration
The shell integration makes it possible to group in command output in "frames" which show success/failure.
Pro Image support
You can view images and other data types like audio directly in the terminal.
Pro Keyboard based text selection
It is possible to go into a cursor mode where you can select text just like in a text editor. It even supports multiple cursors.
Pro Global shortcuts
You can configure global shortcuts to open the terminal.
Pro Keyboard friendly "Command Palette"
Just like Sublime, Atom and VSCode you can easily search and find commands from the drop down Command Palette.
Cons
Con No Scrollbars
Without scrollbar it is very difficult to navigate even the default Microsoft Terminal has a good scrollbar