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Maximilian Burszley • Edited

There is an explicit difference between the ISE console and PowerShell's console application, btw.

You call it newer, but conemu has been around for over a decade (as long as powershell).

My personal preference is Windows Terminal - it keeps getting better with each release, but I'm sad about PSReadline bugs with its VTY emulator. At work, I'm not so fortunate to be on the latest Win10 build, so I use conemu there (the quake keybind feature is neat for productivity).

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Katie Nelson

Thanks. I've tried both PowerShell consoles and use the ISE for debugging scripts.
Newer means "new to me". (I've been around less than 2 decades myself) šŸ˜

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Maximilian Burszley • Edited

It also gets confusing when talking about consoles vs terminals vs shells vs emulators, the list goes on, especially on Windows. In the brief experiments I've had on Linux, I really enjoyed using zsh, but powershell has the most "natural" learning experience to me (and is cross-platform with PowerShell Core and next year, PowerShell 7 and beyond).

On the vein of bash v. powershell, I ran across this article that kind of melds the two by making those Linux commands natively available through a powershell cmdlet-like experience:

devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline...