New Windows Terminal Preview (opens in new tab)

The fact that I don't have to use that God-forsaken color scheme picker from the old terminal is already a huge selling point.

I'm very excited about the future of this application.

Issues:

* Can't drag window using the space what the console tabs are in

* opinion: would be nice if the tabs didn't require the full path of the console's location

* powershell's psreadline doesn't seem to be working fully (ctrl+space not working)

* when I go to right click the icon on the taskbar so that I can pin it, the acrylic goes away. I realize this is an issue with windows 10 in general though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE -- this advertisting video is super cool and nerdy. Who could have thought someone could win a prize with a terminal in the 1990s, when everybody tried to get rid of terminals as hard as they could?

I wish we could have a modern feature rich terminal with real blurring background and powerful features on X11/Xorg/Qt/Gtk/"the linux world". Konsole (KDE) is amongst the best I know so far.

If Windows implements a nice CLI to install apps and tools, *well, it's almost there, but not really), something a la Chocolatey, but 100% free, and standard, and actively developed and supported, then it hands down becomes the best OS for developers. You have almost a real Linux, a real Windows, and a modern Desktop unlike the dated macOS.

Have been building from git for a few months.

It's fast, supports Unix copy and paste, emacs key bindings (What bash uses by default), the config format is nice. You can definitely use it as a daily driver.

Microsoft pretends to care about a problem that others have solved 30 years ago. Their unique priorities seem to be a background image and transparency. After all, who uses a terminal to write and read text these days? This one just makes you feel nerdy while watching cat videos.

Extremely impressive work! It looks stunning.

The WSL integration looks super cool, are you planning any other integrations like Docker, Hyper-V, SSH, or WinRM? Oher machine-local shells like ipython, or aws-shell would be sweet too but I understand not wanting to implement that last one.

I know you could just run some if these as a subprocess but there is some magic in 'Open IPython Tab'

Unify look and feel with VS Code then have VS Code support Windows Terminal sessions as tabs.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-termina...

I see it supports background images now.

Who uses this? Why? Why is that worth the reduced readability?

I have a hard time wrapping my head around why such a feature would ever be implemented.

I guess... mischief? When somebody leaves their computer unlocked, you could set the background image to a screenshot of the terminal with a bunch of text. :-(

The screenshots and the video sure look different.