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Better than the Windows Terminal for WSL. You can work in tmux without getting strange visual artifacts, and allows you to view sixel graphics in console! Fair warning though, I only installed it about two weeks ago, so I can't claim I've battle-tested it though.

ETA: The one thing it doesn't allow me to do is change font programmatically, which would allow me to switch fonts to render non-english characters. I'm very much a beginner in terminals, so if anyone has a solution to this, I would love to hear it.

I highly recommend to check out WSLtty if you're interested in a good WSL terminal: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

It has equally as low input latency, really good keyboard shortcut support, clickable URLs, tmux works perfectly (with and without the mouse), it's rock solid, uses almost no resources, has smaller / less distracting window borders vs MS' terminal and it has lots of themes. I've been using it for full time development with tmux + terminal Vim for almost a year now and it hasn't failed me yet.

The productivity focused short version is:

DexPot[0] for creating hotkey driven virtual desktops (similar to how i3 launches and switches between them)

Ditto[1] for multiple clipboards (searchable and has multiple paste types, much better than what comes with Windows 10)

Keypirinha[2] for launching apps and folders with fuzzing searching (IMO much better than what comes with Windows 10)

AutoHotKey[3] for remapping global hotkeys and filling in gaps for specific things you want to do

wsltty[4] for a low input latency rock solid terminal (best paired with tmux for tabs / splits and buffer searches)

There's in depth blog posts and videos on how all of these work in the link at the start of this comment. I've been using Windows as a primary dev environment for ~20 years and the last half of that has been using it for Linux based development (initially with VMs but now with WSL and Docker).

[0]: https://www.dexpot.de/?lang=en

[1]: http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/

[2]: http://keypirinha.com/

[3]: https://www.autohotkey.com/

[4]: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

I've found it to be the most consistent and performant. Still not the same as being in a native Linux environment, of course, but it's the closest I've been able to get in Windows.

Also, copy/paste works perfectly and I found that fewer of the default keybindings conflict with those in my shell, tmux and vim.

[0] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

Those web-based ones have no problems with fancy font features like powerline icons or ligatures but they still have a limitation when it comes to color support. [1] Fluent seems to be affected from this as well.

The other important feature for me is tmux with mouse support. To my knowledge, only WSLtty [2] does this right. It lacks support for font ligatures but I value a functional tmux more than some ligature eye candy.

I still hope that Microsoft will improve their own conhost.exe in further updates. Also, the upcoming 1903 update will improve the color support those web-based terminal emulators.

[1] https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1968

[2] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

It's real nice and even supports 24bit colour if you're into that.

I use Moom on the Mac with hotkeys that match the Windows left/right-side tiling, and a custom OpenBox config[1] that matches those too:

https://github.com/rcarmo/docker-templates/blob/master/deskt...

Then on the Mac I usually use the native Terminal (I keep trying to switch to iTerm, but most of the performance issues Terminal had have been ironed out by now), on Linux I usually use lxterminal, and on Windows I either use Cygwin's mintty or (more recently) wsltty to interact with Bash for Windows:

https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

(even though I'm a Microsoft employee, I strongly dislike the "feel" of the standard console and the way it handles both fonts and copy/paste, so I seldom use it at all)

I also tried various hacks to do raise on hover and suchlike, but I found that some things were best left "native" and get along OK with these bare mouseless window management hotkeys.

Incidentally, tmux has a growing following among my colleagues (there are a lot of Microsoft folk getting to grips with Bash and SSH these days, so when I tried to pass on some best practices, tmux was right at the top of the list)