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Ok. So you type the correct name of the program. Cause terminal ain't it. CMD and it opens fine.
There's literally an app named Windows Terminal and you can see it right there in the screenshot.
I've always opened it with "terminal".
Terminal is a program, and it can do WSL, powershell and batch. It has tabs and other modern features.
Pretty sure CMD only does batch
It also comes with openssh and winget (package manager) by default!
While I prefer my Linux terminal emulators, the Terminal app is one of the few remaining Windows apps I actually like. When I do have to use windows, the first thing I do is customize it. Once you get Chocolatey, WSL, and git installed, dare I say Windows begins to approach a pleasurable CLI experience.
Not in windows. On mac and linux maybe but CMD has been CMD since 3.1.
This is the equivilent of typing "pic fixer" and expectung photoshop to appear.
You should... check if your info is still up to date before arguing so assuredly. As others mentioned, terminal is the upgrade in Win11. It has much more modern functionality than cmd, and has replaced it and powershell for the right click start button CLI options. Which imo is easier than typing it in.
It's possible your Windows info is out of date. They're referring to this app, which is installed on Windows 11 by default (though you can get it on Windows 10).
It's actually a decent terminal emulator (by Windows standards) that's pretty customizable. It can even become a terminal for a local Linux VM with WSL.
You can literally see they have Terminal installed in the screenshot. It may not be default but it is certainly on that computer. But a web search is far more important than a program installed on the computer.
It is the default shell application in windows 11 these days. As of 23h2 I believe.
I think they are referring to the app literally named "Windows Terminal"
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n0dx20hk701?hl=en-US&gl=US
Yeh, it's come as standard on windows for a few years now, right?
I don't ever remember installing it on any windows computers I've used and it's always been there
30 seconds ago I literally just typed in the CMD and hit enter and it opened up my command prompt.
You can use cmd. But in windows 11, terminal is the default shell. It is miles better than cmd and powers hell in that it can run tabbed versions of any shells you have installed. Pyshell, chocolaty, git bash, azure cloud, even anaconda. It is all available in one place and has a lot of quality of life improvements. It's also not bloated at the same time if you can believe that.
Interesting thing is I've been running Windows 11 on the laptop that I purchased for business use for the past I don't know 4 years or whatever it is that I've had it it was one of the early laptops at Costco sold with Windows 11 on it. I use it exclusively for business use in the it world. Mostly so I can turn remote control when I'm configuring system servers etc over to other technicians and I don't have to worry about what's on it because in the end I could just wipe the whole thing and not give a shit. But not one person not one technician not one tech desk I've worked with and a lot of access to my laptop over the past 4 years give or take has ever even bothered opening that program. Everybody pretty much just uses the command prompt to do all the things are going to do on it. And I suppose if I were actively and admin full time or something for that effect I would use it. But in that case the last time I ran and never Operation center or I was an administrator I ran Linux and just ran terminal over that.
I am an L3 for an MSP. I pretty much exclusively use terminal on windows 11. Tends to be the old guys I work with that use cmd still. It's fine to have lots of experience doing things the way you've always done them. It's also fine for there to be improvements in the systems we use.
I know I definitely believe that there's full time to be able to improve stuff like this. I don't mind trying out new programs that work much better and smoother than the old ones. The point is the command prompt just works every single time any single time and you don't have to worry about installing anything cuz it's baked in built in and at the core of every single window system. You don't have to get used to new commands new terminal lingo or anything like that it just works.
I've had "cmd" default to "CmDust.exe" which is a program installed by Codemeter (a hardware dongle licence thing).
Considering I used to type "cmd" and get CmDust.exe, I was happy when Terminal became easier to launch. And Terminal is great to use, imo
Yeah. This is just another in the long long long list of examples or Linux users trying to manipulate things.
Terminal is different from cmd. It's new in Win11 and has multiple command functionalities(cmd, powershell, powershell7, Azure Cloud shell, customizable profiles, etc), with multitab support. You were in such a rush to insult Linux users you didn't even check if you were just wrong.
Both apps that appeared. Along with a web search that is more relevant to the average user.