Since then it is now available from the Windows Store, or using Chocolatey. When Windows Terminal was first released (keep in mind it is in preview) the only way to install it on a system was to compile it from the source code on Github, something I avoided since it seemed like too much of a hassle. Rich provides fascinating insight into how the Windows console works and how Windows Terminal came about. For a deeper dive into this, you should check out Rich Turner’s episode on RunAsRadio. To get around this, the Windows command-line team reengineered the console so that the Windows Terminal could share components with it. The console is responsible for things like text rendering, input engine, and user preferences. The Windows console (conhost.exe) has always had the goal of backwards compatibility, which has limited the features that could be added to it over time.
Windows has always fallen very short of having a current terminal, so many command-line users have resorted to using other terminals like ConEmu, which provides many of those more modern features users like. There are a ton of settings, themes and of course tabs. Windows 10 is a nicely designed OS, similar to macOS, but macOS has a much more sleek and modern terminal to use. Windows users have long complained about the built-in terminal experience within the Windows operating system, myself included. Recently at the Microsoft Build conference, it was announced that there is a new Windows terminal that can be used as an alternative to cmd of PowerShell, called Windows Terminal.
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