Terminals

Let's start by clearing some misconceptions.

• terminal text input/output environment
• console physical terminal
• shell command line interpreter

Read these for better explanations.

• Stack Overflow
• Blog post

So here are some commonly used shell for windows

• cmd (defaut one) and command.com many hate these
• powershell
• Cygwin and git which comes with fake linux like shells and used minTTY as terminal.
• using WSL you can use any shell from linux

And here is a list of terminal's you can use

• conhost old terminal and the default one
• Windows Terminal open source windows terminal
• Hyper electron based
• ConEmu
• Putty
• minTTY

and many more.