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Discussion on: Choices for a console in Windows

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Fulton Browne

I would try using WSL, its fantastic.

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Katie Nelson

Looks like that means loading a Linux distro. Which one do you use?

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Fulton Browne

Ubuntu, so I can use apt and snap package managers.

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Ben Sinclair

It's really quite buggy. And so slooooow. I know it's a "preview", but people have been knocking out terminal emulators for years which work way better than the MS attempt.

It is, still the best you're going to get on Windows I think. I've tried a few, and they all fall down at something or break with Windows updates from time to time.