c/linux · by chakli@lemmy.world · 1y

What’s a good terminal emulator for windows to connect to ssh and WSL?

I am looking some recommendations for a terminal emulator from windows to login to Linux via ssh+tmux and also connect to WSL.

It needs to have support for multiple tabs, would be nice if it also had split window support. And mostly should feel like a Linux terminal emulator.

I am mostly used to konsole, so something like that would be preferable. I have been using alacritty, but no tabs makes me feel weird.

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bw42@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 1y (9 replies)

Microsoft Terminal supports tabs and custom profiles. It can host Azure CLI, PowerShell, CMD.exe, and Bash.
Windows ships with openssh that is usable in any of the supported cli.

I use it all the time for work to ssh into systems.

chakli@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I have tried this, but feels clunky to me. And the copy paste behaviour is kind of weird. Similar to cmd.

cyborganism@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 1y (2 replies)

You can modify that in the configs.

Honestly, after using Windows and Linux side-by-side for 25 years, the new Windows Terminal is the best terminal emulator they ever made.

thomask@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y

It also has the best promotional video I've ever seen for a terminal emulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE

chakli@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Wow, had to spend couple if hours configuring it. Almost as nice as konsole.

Lucien@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y

Came here to say this. My daily driver is nushell in Microsoft terminal.

hisao@ani.social · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Also it has smart suggestions system which I really like. Initially it was on by default iirc, but nowadays I think you have to turn it on yourself. What it does is basically after you did any command like "ssh root@xx.xx.xx.xx", it will remember that and next time you start typing "ssh" it will automatically provide full command as autocompletion suggestion. It's purely textual so it works with anything.

swab148@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Are Windows users just now getting this feature? I've had autosuggestions in my oh-my-zsh config for years.

hisao@ani.social · 2 pts · 1y

I've never seen it on Windows before Windows Terminal, but the latter has been around for a few years at least. I wouldn't doubt we can have this and much more with Linux shells.

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

Microsoft's installed ssh has a phone home behaviour, it logs the server IP you connected to back to the MS mothership during your login.

nixx@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I have been using Tabby for a couple of years and I can recommend it

https://tabby.sh/

Lucien@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 1y

Looks neat

SpaceCadet@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I use Windows Terminal nowadays. It feels more clunky and slow than say, foot or kitty on Linux, but it's functional.

Before, I used to use PuTTY for ssh sessions, it feels more fluid, but it needs a lot of configuring to get the terminal behavior just right, and the settings UI is really outdated. It also doesn't support WSL (unless you run sshd on WSL and ssh into the system).

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y

Windows Terminal is slower and a bit weird to use

It does work though. Way better than gWSL

beeng@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y

Wezterm is pro

Godort@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Just straight vanilla powershell is pretty good

Lucien@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y

It's kind of slow to start, though. Coming from a Bash background, it gets tiresome.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

Windows Terminal

It is preinstalled on Windows 11

zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y

I use wezterm. It's more configurable than the windows terminal and also works on linux. It has an appropriately linux-y feel imo.

Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

I used just plain command prompt for a long time when I was on Windows, but I did find a nice one called Tabby. The only problem is getting it to run as your default terminal.

logos@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

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Psaldorn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I just use git-bash, I don't know how it gets installed though. Source tree maybe?

zonnewin@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Konsole works on Windows, so why not use that?

chakli@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I don’t see a download for windows on its page. Or did you mean build from source

zonnewin@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 1y

https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/utilities/konsole/master/windows/

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 1y

It is still in Alpha