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Give this a whirl: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

The latest Insider builds are a lot better, including full color support.

It's apparently coming to stable in April: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13695267

You may be interested in ConEmu:

https://conemu.github.io/ https://conemu.github.io/en/BashOnWindows.html

I did try conemu when bash for windows was first released, but ran into some problems. Will definitely try again, thanks! Though the wsltty linked below looks promising as well