what cool things can you do with the new windows terminal

You can’t see it from the screen capture, but the cyberpunk image is an animated GIF, that is animated behind the text. I’ll also mention that I’m using Fira Code, a font that supports ligatures, and it shows <= as one character, not two. And all of it shows up in the new Windows Terminal, which was not always true. Also, I try to use Taskwarrior and the check (✔) signifies that I have no tasks outstanding. Also, the computer emoji (💻) indicating that I don’t have packages to add, and the battery (🔋), which doesn’t mean much because the term is on my desktop, but would indicate battery charge level. The coffee cup emoji (☕) indicating the cups I’ve consumed that day. I’m starting with the WSL prompt, because, as a Linux guy, I’ve done much more work with my Bash prompt customization. You can download it from the MS Store now, and unlike some other favorite toys, you don’t have to be Fast Track Windows Insider. Rich Turner would know, because he wrote the … well, blog series … on the history of terminals in Windows, which lead to the release of the new Windows Terminal. They worked fine with th e Cygwin terminal and the Git Bash that was derived from it, and I recall that PuTTY handled things well (but now that you can SSH from PowerShell and CMD prompts, I never open it anymore), but the built-in terminals were basically unchanged from NT and maybe before. I have been a WSL user for some time, and also someone keen on hacking my Bash prompt, which has lead me to find that Windows Terminal has lagged for some time on Gnome Terminal for Unicode support, which means that, for example, if you want icons to tell you that you’ve had several cups of coffee, your laptop battery is low, or your Git repo’s status is that of smiling poo, they just wouldn’t show up well on Windows.

What cool things can you do with the new windows terminal