[mrkeen]

WSL terminal is garbage. Here's what irks me:

* I click on the icon and I get a terminal up (nevermind that it doesn't accept focus on startup, so I start typing and the characters keep going to my task bar).

* I type in "clear && ls" and hit enter.

* My line of text vanishes and I'm left with a completely black terminal. If I scroll up with the mouse-wheel I can see what I should have seen (the output of ls).

* I press up (to step backward through my command history) and all the text vanishes again.

The only workaround I have is to run something like tmux, which is somehow smart enough to render the text on-screen.

[cosmiccatnap]

I agree, been trying to make this setup work for over a year now because I use Windows at work for a few things here and there but it's just not worth it really...

You would do much better to install Linux and virtualize windows, then you get the best of both worlds. it's great that windows decided to add a terminal after every other OS has had it for decades but I think this thread is a bit like having rose colored glasses on top of your drunk goggles because WSL and Windows terminal are still an ocean away from a usable low latency terminal environment compared even to OS/2 if we're being brutally honest...

[mtrower]

Say what?

Exactly which release of Windows do you think didn't supply a terminal?