Notice that the Windows Terminal has four primary components: There are a lot of tweaks you’ll have to make to get there, but it all starts with a window like this one below. When you open up Windows Terminal for the first time, it doesn’t look or feel impressive. The installation is straightforward so we won’t cover that in this article and will assume you’ve already installed it.
There are two different versions you can download the standard Windows Terminal and the Windows Terminal Preview.įor the purposes of this article, you can use either one.
There are a few different ways to install Windows Terminal, but the easiest by far (and the Microsoft-recommended way) is to install it from the Microsoft Store.
Python with the rich text library installed.The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) feature enabled with a Linux distribution installed (all demos shown are using Ubuntu 20.04).If you want to follow along with all of the demos in this article, you’ll need a few other tools installed as well:
All you need is a Windows 10 machine with build 1903 (May 2019) or later. The requirements to install and use the Windows Terminal itself are pretty basic.