It doesn't work on Windows. What are your favorite Windows alternatives?

mellosouls 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Windows Terminal. I used to use things like Kitty but don't see a need these days.

miroljub 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yep, I use the beta version of Windows Terminal, which fully supports Kitty protocols, but I'm still envious of people using Kitty directly or even Ghostty.

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tappaseater 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Windows Terminal is surprisingly outstanding.

	▲	mkhnews 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It is pretty good. The font rendering isn't great tho, especially when window scaling is used.

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not_a9 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Stencil’s Tern is extremely based, but it has a bunch more features.

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dsign 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

WezTerm has worked fine for me. Windows however has ConPTY which is better than what was before but still a nuisance if one whats to use advanced escape sequences and other things that modern terminals support.

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m000 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I concur. WezTerm is my driver for the past 3-4 years. For anyone wishing to try it, make sure you grab a nightly build.

I wish there were regular official releases that would help it get more traction. Last official release is 2.5 years ago, despite continuing development. This could drive some people away. OTOH, maybe that's the point...

	▲	gib444 a minute ago \| parent [-]
		[delayed]

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chii 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's nowhere as featureful as kitty, but i've been using cmder and it's good enough a replacement for the default windows terminal for daily use. But if you use powershell, i m not sure what a good replacement is (but it does work in cmder iirc).

https://cmder.app/ , in case the (many) other products with the same name shows up in searches.

	▲	LelouBil 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Honestly you don't need ConEmu (the terminal emulator part of cmder) anymore with the new Windows Terminal

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incognito124 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My favorite Windows alternative is Linux, specifically Manjaro

	▲	m000 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		<Apple Kid Meme/>

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fernandotakai 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i use alacritty on every single OS and i absolutely love it.

	▲	mkhnews 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I want to use Alacritty on Windows, but it still has a ctrl+alt+key issue due to some upstream winit issue. Other apps seemed to have worked that out in other ways tho. I thought the font rendering in Alacritty on Windows was the best, so I still hope one day its updated with a fix.

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antihero 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does GhosTTY work on windows?

	▲	rmunn 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not yet, but there are several projects that exist to build it for Windows: https://wintty.io/ describes itself as "A native Windows terminal built on the Ghostty core" (i.e., wrapping libghostty in a Windows application), and is probably the one I'd start with. There's also https://noctty.com/ which has taken a similar approach. Both are clearly LLM-assisted projects, but https://noctty.com/ has a very Claude-esque front page whereas https://wintty.io/ doesn't set off my LLM detectors nearly as badly. However, Wintty's download page says "Prebuilt builds are for sponsors. The source is free and always will be, and you can build it yourself" so if you decide you don't like that business model then you may wish to try Noctty, which does have prebuilt binaries. NOTE: I have not spent any amount of time with either of those, so I can't give personal recommendations either for or against either.