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Windows Terminal v.1.0 is out! Personally I used (and still do) to work with Cmder but I’ve been using it for some time now, in my daily routine, and work side-by-side with Windows Terminal. Quite flexible with nice UI. Deeper integration with the underlying OS and quite a customization you can do to make it more personal.

There are blogs from two people who blog about it a lot: Scott Hanselmann and Thomas Maurer. Google and find the most recent ones on how to go about it.

Get it from the Windows Store or download and install it manually from the Releases in GitHub.

Note: If you install Terminal manually:

• Be sure to install the Desktop Bridge VC++ v14 Redistributable Package otherwise Terminal may not install and/or run and may crash at startup
• Also, a downside is that you need to manually update it when a new version comes out

If you are Chocolatey fan, you can -unofficially- install it using the following command:

choco install microsoft-windows-terminal
 

or you can upgrade to the latest one with:

choco upgrade microsoft-windows-terminal
 

Further resources

For more information about Windows Terminal, you may find some of these resources useful and interesting:

• Command-Line Blog
• Microsoft Build 2020 Session: The new Windows command-line: Windows Terminal and WSL 2 – INT185A
• Microsoft Build 2020 Session: The new Windows Command Line: Windows Terminal and WSL – BDL208