WSL is the answer to anything where you go "I want ____ from <linux distro>". Install a decent terminal emulator, open it, type "bash" and win.
Also this might be helpful for anyone wanting to follow along: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/
It looks rather interesting, if still in prerelease. (also, there's a trailer for it on YouTube - so weird [2])
0: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal-preview/9...
The 0.5 version is usable as a day to day terminal.
Alternative most stable Terminal is Fluent which I've used for a couple of years now.
I have small reviews of about 8 of the Windows terminal apps at: https://github.com/mikemaccana/powershell-profile
Fwiw, I work on rails + react apps with this setup: - Hyper as my terminal - WSL2. Then just my zsh/vim/tmux setup - Docker's tech preview for WSL2
This has been pretty reliable so far. I'm sure I'll hit a snag at some point, but it has been a relatively smooth experience.
Alacritty is great if you need actual performance.
Hyper is actually the one with the overall best experience, but it is electron and the usual issues apply.
Fwiw, mobaxterm can also be configured to use wsl.
There are quite a few terminal emulators on windows and I just listed a few I thought noteable.
I didn't even mention the new one from Microsoft!
If you just want a sleek looking terminal for a few commands, cmder is definitely a valid choice. The occasionally broken copy paste is however dangerous, as it can remove characters from the middle of a line
I.e. `rm -rf /tmp/something && echo success` can get shortened to `rm -rf / && echo success`. It's admittedly very unlikely, as it usually just introduces errors such as `rm -rf /tm & echo success`.
Also yes I noticed those issues in Cmder, I'm always looking for better choices that look nice to the eyes.