Looking for a reliable terminal app for Windows

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Hello Friends

In Linux about terminal I use:

  • Terminal
  • Terminator
  • Kitty

And as a special case tmux.

In windows 10 since many years ago I use ConEmu. It is used since few months ago for Windows 11 too. This software is useful until some point.

But I need a Console more robust in Windows, it to have multiple tabs and internal panes such as Terminator. It for Docker, SSH and Git etc

According with your own experience in use:

Question

  • What would be your best recommendation about a Terminal very similar as in Linux for Windows?

Thank You

p.d: if you know even similar tool as tmux for windows. Pls let me know!

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I use MobaXterm - I don’t have any Windows machines in my home environment (I mostly work from home) - but - I do have to access Windows jumphosts via RDP for work - and I keep a copy of MobaXterm in there (I bought it - but I don’t re-license yearly) - I probably have it on about 6-8 Windows “jumphost” servers… I just use as a “portable application”…

I wouldn’t be able to do my job without MobaXterm - it has a bash shell internally - and run multiple tabs of it’s bash shell and use it like it’s a Linux or UNIX system - e.g. to connect to a server I simply “ssh user@hostname” (and it uses OpenSSH ssh config and SSH key management in ~/.ssh). Out of the box - MobaXterm does “X Select” style clipboard (i.e. select some text and it’s in the clipboard, middle-button paste in a terminal - and it pastes the clipboard into your terminal).

(pretty sure the “shareware” version is 100% functional - just limits the number of tabs you can run)

Some other reasonably good applications are “TaBBY” (it has Windows, MacOS and Linux versions - so it’s cross platform)… It can also do PowerShell, and I think even “CMD”…

And there’s also Microsoft Terminal App for MS Windows - it was touted as a tool for doing WSL… I think I tried it about 5 years ago and was unimpressed - but it’s VASTLY better than the legacy “shell” that Microsoft runs PowerShell and CMD in…

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Really huge thanks Dan for your feedback. I hope this weekend try to test each solution.

A cold beer to you! :beer_mug:

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To the audience, I tested the two latest mentioned

Was chosen the Tabby terminal and it is available for Linux too

Note: the third mentioned already was installed in Windows 11 Home edition

Thanks again to all

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