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Windows Terminal is a new, modern terminal console that allows accessing all of these environments from a single location. Hence, the recent news from Microsoft is the new Windows Terminal console. However, Microsoft is wanting to make things easier to access the various environments using a single console. PowerShell is accessed from the PowerShell console via powershell.exe. Up until now, generally speaking, if you ware accessing the traditional command prompt, you do this from cmd.exe. Microsoft is at it again, releasing cool new tools that are taking code development and infrastructure operations a step forward.

So, if you are on version 2004, for instance, you are fine.įor an easy-to-get, auto-updating version, install from the Microsoft StoreĬommand line package managers on Windows? Yes, please.***Update*** Windows Terminal Preview Microsoft Store Link posted *** See Below Windows Terminal requires at least Wind(build 18362). Run winver (in Powershell, CMD, or after ⊞-r). Any of the following will work well, but I have listed them in my order of preference.įirst, though, make sure your Windows 10 version is recent enough. There are many ways to install Windows Terminal. See the settings docs for details on what you can configure (yes, font face is one of them hello, Fira Code! Hello, Nerd Fonts!) Ctrl-, will open the settings file in your default text editor.

Made by Microsoft, and released under the open source MIT license. Thankfully, we can do so much better than the Powershell window.Įnter the relatively new Windows Terminal.

Open the Start Menu, type "Replace Command Prompt," and you should see the above setting. The Powershell window is much better, but still not comparable to the various terminal window options on Linux and Mac.īe that as it may, you probably want to make it easier to access Powershell rather than CMD with the ⊞-x keyboard shortcut, so: Once upon a time, the Windows command line was CMD, and it was horrible.