Microsoft Terminal VS Windows Package Manager CLI

I suppose the writer will have to wait a few more years before apple 'reinvents' the touch screen and convinces everyone they invented the touchscreen laptop. Notice how just about every other manufacture has a touch screen offering. The same was true for DVD writers back when apple called it the super drive. Many devices on the market came with DVD writers. The ipad pro as great as it is, will not replace a... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

In my case, I use Windows Terminal which is a free and more feature complete terminal program for Windows. I find its support for various ANSI terminal attributes more complete than say something like putty. However, it does have an issue with incorrectly handling C-spc. Source: 11 months ago

I just use Windows Terminal (Preview version): https://github.com/microsoft/terminal and adjust its settings there. Source: 12 months ago

Either Wezterm OR Window-terminal I Personally use WindowTERM with alacritty * when needed Since WindowTerm has some weird ncurses issues ,. Source: 12 months ago

The impression I got from reading through some of the Windows Terminal[0] issues/release notes, is that It's understandable that it's much slower and more challenging to make changes to functionality that's become part of Windows core. If something in PowerToys turns out to be a bad idea, it can be removed. It's much harder to justify that when it's been baked into the OS. [0] - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Now, this is the hardest bit, most of us are too poor to afford the latest and greatest tech and other new stuffs, but things which we can do, like installing a new program (Microsoft PowerToys, Windows Terminal and Windows Package Manager (Winget)) testing new softwares (Windows Insider Program, Apple Public Beta Program) are some ways to make us the early birds or early adopters without spending our precious... Source: about 1 year ago

Installing any single application: Microsoft Store and WinGet if you prefer something like apt-get. Source: about 1 year ago

2) Get winget from microsoft/winget-cli and install it manually then install Windows Terminal with it. The downside is no updates for winget itself unless you download a new version by hand. Source: over 1 year ago

This is a frontend for various Windows package managers, it does not do package management itself. You would have to investigate the specific package manager you want to use. In this case, it's using (among others) Winget which is Microsoft's package manager offering (which is fairly new, I think). Source: over 1 year ago

Consider using winget to keep the majority of your packages up-to-date. It's baked into Windows 11 and the most recent versions of Windows 10 (as far as I am aware of), it also has updating capabilities, etc. Source: over 1 year ago