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If windows had iTerm2, I am pretty sure I could let my last mac go. Everything we have for windows is as good as a piece of iTerm2, but none of them bring it all together.

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I haven't tried it myself, but there's the new Windows Terminal if you aren't aware of it.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

Still quite experimental right now, but a really awesome project! A preview build is available through the windows store if you want to try out without playing with building from scratch.

I'm using it (build from source), and it's really nice. Definitely rough around the edge with cut and paste problems and some weird control character glitches if TERM ends up set to the wrong thing (eg inside a gnu screen session). But overall a huge step forward from the old conhost.

I'm pretty happy with ConEmu [0] and the linux-shell on Windows after years of using OSX.

[0]:https://conemu.github.io/

ConEmu is pretty, and I do like it and use it - but it isn't quite the same.

ConEmu is the best solution on Windows. Hopefully the new Windows Terminal brings console API changes that ConEmu can take advantage of; there is a lot of black magic going on under the hood.

I use it since I view Cmder - https://cmder.net/

Developer is responsive and it adds enough to the experience to make it worthwhile as a wrapper.

Wsltty is decent enough

iTerm is more than just a "decent" terminal emulator; it's the most featureful. In fact, no other terminal emulator can replace iTerm without losing a ton of features, even on Linux.

Agreed, it's probably something I'm going to keep hunting for... will probably just use Hyper when I switch in a few months, but would love iTerm.

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