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The new terminal is pretty good, but what's more impressive to me about this is how bad it is.

It's so clearly incomplete that opening the preferences launched a JSON editor window in Visual Studio (not VSCode).

The level of openness it takes to open such a central utility built by what would historically be a low-profile team is quite remarkable, and I am convinced will result in an excellent product ... in time.

For now? It's almost good enough to be my daily driver but not quite.

Good luck to the development team! I'll be watching.

Change the default JSON editor from Visual Studio to VS Code, and you'll tick that checkbox. When I read the documentation before I installed it, there was a part that said that the JSON config file would open in the preferred JSON editor. It must be Visual Studio in your case.

Might be your system file settings. Mine opened up in VSCode, talking of which, don't forget that VSCode also opened a JSON file long before they added the settings interface.

I couldn't find documentation for settings either so don't fully know what's capable but they do seem limited for now.

Can confirm; it opens the default .json file editor. It's whatever the default setting is (which was VS2019 for me, as I don't work with json and didn't have it set).

I know I'm not the only one who chuckled at the fact that it's rated "E for Everyone".

Honest question: aren't ESRB ratings contractually loaned from the ESRB entity itself? The fact that one is displayed here seems to indicate the ESRB legitimately reviewed and rated the Windows terminal. Or does it grant a license to Microsoft to set the ESRB value as it sees fit?

Interesting point. Kotaku got a nastygram over it a while back: http://web.archive.org/web/20090409100222/https://kotaku.com...

I'm guessing you could reasonably argue genericide at this point, but I doubt they'll go after microsoft.

Update: did some more homework; esrb has started doing this in many places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Rating_...

thanks for the info; very interesting.

Posted this about a week ago with pc mag commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252541

It would be great if it would replace backslashes with forward slashes and allow this blunder to be gradually phased out of Windows...

That would be done in the shell, not the terminal.

Forward slashes have worked in the terminal for a long time.

  PS C:\Users> cd rthom/Desktop
  PS C:\Users\rthom\Desktop>

I installed it via the store, store says it is installed but I cannot find any way to actually launch the terminal?

It’s in the start menu.

Any reason to use it instead of ConEmu?

It's 2019. They are about 6 years too late. People used to complain about people copying MS for Linux, but they are clearly trying to copy Linux terminal emulators to stay relevant.

What’s the matter with following consumer/user demand? They may be late, but it looks many appreciate it, so I’d say this is meeting customer demand in addition to plugging their support for people’s workflow where it’s lacking.

Yes, Microsoft clearly has a relevancy problem.

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