Here's the short version. Windows Terminal is Microsoft's modern terminal app. You start it with wt. It is not the old console window by itself — that host is still around, and Terminal can talk to it — but Terminal is the new front: tabs, panes, GPU text, a JSON settings file, profiles for PowerShell and cmd and WSL.
Terminal · Lesson 1
What Windows Terminal actually is
wt, not the leftover console host by itself.
Lessons · Terminal · Lesson 1 of 10 · On the house
What Windows Terminal actually is
wt, not the leftover console host by itself.
If you grew up on a black box that couldn't tab, this is the replacement that still speaks those shells. We're teaching the app, not a break-in. Glyph's rule holds on this desk too: the craft, never a how-to for unauthorised access.
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What is Windows Terminal?
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Type the command that opens Windows Terminal.
Next we split the window. Tabs first, then panes. Phone-first reading; the app itself is a desktop window.