Microsoft Terminal is Awesome

Of late I’ve been spending quite a lot of my time in Windows PowerShell. One of the things that drives me a bit nuts about it is the horrible choice of colours for errors and whatnot. I’ve quite often found myself having to cut the text out of the window and paste it into Notepad just so I can read it with proper contrast. Colour combinations such as dark red on dark blue don’t work well for me. Perhaps its my age.

Anyhoo, I’ve found a way round this which works really well. It’s called Windows Terminal and you can download it from the Windows App store. It has tabs so you can have multiple shells open in the same window - which is great if you’re talking to several remote systems using ssh. It uses the same colour scheme but for some reason the text looks a lot better. It has awesome profile support that you can fiddle with and customize to your heart’s content. It also lets you use images as the backdrops to your terminal sessions.

Well worth a look.