You Can Now Download the New Open Source Windows Terminal

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I'm glad this is finally more easily available. I've been waiting for a decent windows terminal, and I hope this will be it.

I tried out an earlier version when the wsl2 preview launched. It seemed nice, but had some pretty big rough edges. I have high hopes for 1.0.

I tried to install it, but you have to have the very brand new Windows 10 update release 1903.

So I tried to install 1903. 1903 is not available for my system, because I have a USB drive installed. [1]

All my spinning disk storage is an external enclosure, including my /user roots, so it's not something I can unplug.

Guess I'll be sticking with ConEmu for a while longer.

1. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-m...

I was able to manually upgrade a Win 10 machine with a USB drive to 1903.

Awesome, I've been looking forwards to this!

Alternatively, here's an open source terminal for windows that I really enjoy:

https://github.com/Eugeny/terminus/

I've used terminus and it is quite good, but like most Electron-based terminals, it is too resource-heavy for some people's tastes. Edit: Also, Windows Terminal is open-source too, surprisingly. Or maybe that's just my dated impression of Microsoft.

Eh... Microsoft Store? So no new terminal for LTSB?

Wouldn't otherwise because it needs features in Windows currently not present in LTSB.

I see. Well I'll stick to other emulators.

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