I wish any of the supplied terminals and shells for Windows were even halfway decent.

At first I tried really hard to use these tools, since my work laptop runs Windows, but gradually I accepted that no, even the experienced users aren't doing any better, these tools are just worse than the ones I was used to, and so I use a Unix shell and terminals designed to run those shells instead.

There were Windows/ Microsoft tools where I found things to like. C# is at least arguably a better Java for example. But a lot of the things I expected to find had benefits were just disappointing.

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zadjii a day ago | parent [-]

What complaints do you have with the Windows Terminal specifically? I can get having issues with CMD or PowerShell - they're very non-unix-y. But WT itself is probably one of the most feature-complete terminal emulators out there these days. I'd love to know what you think it's missing

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tialaramex a day ago | parent [-]

The thing that specifically makes me sigh every single day is that I start a power shell, the terminal opens and it displays most of the greeting, but only later, maybe in a few seconds, or when I click it, the rest displays. Arguably that might be a power shell bug but it's annoying and the same people made both. It's a bad smell, did anybody QA this?

Some time during my day I'll forget that because Microsoft's engineers have apparently seen a real Unix but have little or no experience living with one they've decided PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD are the same thing. This is another one of those things like doing MAC and encryption in the wrong order, or not realising you need a new variable (with the same name) for each iteration of your loops, where it makes sense if it's 1975 and this isn't yet common knowledge, but this is 2025, fucking ask someone.

There are more annoyances, but those are the biggest two.

	▲	mixmastamyk 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Does windows have two clipboards? Don’t think so, although could be implemented I suppose. Some won’t like it as well.