Thanks :) We do what we can, and we're certainly not about to stop trying to impress.

Amazing? Resizing, some better keyboard shortcut integration, and transparency?

It's still ages behind *nix OSs.

posh-git is a great powershell module that shows your current branch, has customizable colors, and adds tab completion to git commands. I think that stuff should stay as add-ons rather than be built into the console host.

Do you mean any of the following: https://i.imgur.com/zyC4A73.png

Colors can be customized, but changing them is a PITA so we made (ColorTool)[https://github.com/Microsoft/console/tree/master/tools/Color...] to make it a little easier

Auto updating the prompt isn't possible in CMD unfortunately. I do believe it's possible in powershell, but that's not my cup of tea. I do have a batch script that gets the branch and re-sets my prompt. You could create a git.bat that calls such a script on every git command, or like me, create `vf.bat` that I use to cd and update the prompt at once.

Also in this picture: cmd.exe running inside tmux in WSL. Coming soon to Insider's Builds near you

Correct me if I am wrong, but it doesn't have to be inside cmd. A lot of people use cmder/conemu, and it works great with WSL. You can even put your own shell on top of WSL (zsh, fish, etc.), if you are inclined to do so.

Just installed Xming, "apt install xfce4-terminal".

DISPLAY=:0.0 xfce4-terminal &

After that, it about 90% of typical Unix setup with all the control key bindings for copy-paste, etc.

I wish WSL 's bash environment can run windows programs/utilities like Cygnus.

I think you mean conhost (cmd is the shell program, not the terminal). It does have it's rough edges but it's much improved from where it was only a few years ago and its far from the only way to host a WSL session. This includes support for ANSI escape codes (TERM=xterm works fine) and better colors (though you may need to reset the defaults if you're upgrading from an old system). Lastly, there are plenty of other terminal apps which make this much more familiar for folks who prefer things like tabbed windows, or theming.

A second point, WSL programs don't rely on an active conhost shell to keep running. You can kick them off and run them in the background just fine. On one of my machines, I have a full i3 session running with no conhost window in sight. Everything works seamlessly, I can talk to my editor running as a Windows app, cut & paste back and forth, see file change notifications, hook up my docker command with my docker for windows VM, and so on. It's nice enough that I miss it when on my Mac and get annoyed with some of the fussy application alternatives on the typical Linux desktop.