At Build 2020, Microsoft released Windows Terminal 1.0 and announced WSL 2 is getting support for GPUs, Linux GUI apps, and a simplified install experience.

The first thing you'll want to do to improve your terminal on a new Linux installation is install the Kitty terminal emulator ...

Microsoft has announced Windows Terminal, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2, XAML Islands, React Native for Windows, and MSIX Core.

When Windows Terminal is first installed, it will automatically create profiles for PowerShell, the CMD prompt, and any installed WSL Linux distributions.

On Windows 11, you can use Ollama either natively or through WSL, with the latter being potentially important for developers.

You can access Windows Subsystem for Linux files using Explorer on Windows 11/10. Open Explorer from WSL Terminal or launch the root from Explorer.

Microsoft is now classifying Windows Terminal as an inbox app, which means that it will now ship by default in upcoming versions of Windows 10.

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It lets you access and uses Command Prompt, PowerShell, and also Windows Subsystem for Linux on it. Whenever you open Windows Terminal, you see a default starting directory.

Coming soon: Windows Terminal—finally a tabbed, emoji-capable Windows command-line Big performance enhancements for the Linux subsystem are also on the way.