When comparing mintty vs Fluent Terminal, the Slant community recommends mintty for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for Windows?” mintty is ranked 9th while Fluent Terminal is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose mintty is:
Mintty is a native Windows wrapper around Cygwin but with added customization features like changing background color, font, transparency, etc.
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Pros
Pro Support for Cygwin and MSYS
Mintty is a native Windows wrapper around Cygwin but with added customization features like changing background color, font, transparency, etc.
Pro Proper support for scrolling in terminal applications
The mouse wheel in mintty actually scrolls the content in man/less/vim, etc.
Pro Xterm-compatible terminal emulation
Xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System.
Pro UTF-8 support
UTF-8 allows for the encoding of all possible characters.
Pro Drag and drop makes for ease of use
The drag and drop function in mintty allows the user to move an item quickly and easily.
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.
Cons
Con No multiple tab support
Con Win32 console API performs poorly
Classic Windows console applications don't work well.
Con No native support for WSL
Cygwin is dead. WSL is amazing, yet Mintty is designed around Cygwin and the WSLtty app to connect Mintty to WSL feels like a hack.
Con No Scrollbars
Without scrollbar it is very difficult to navigate even the default Microsoft Terminal has a good scrollbar