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.

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.