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Cmder vs Windows Terminal: What are the differences?

Cmder: Portable console emulator for Windows. It is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout; Windows Terminal: Productive terminal application for command-line users. A new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community.

Cmder and Windows Terminal can be categorized as "Terminal Emulators" tools.

Windows Terminal is an open source tool with 67.8K GitHub stars and 6.26K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Windows Terminal's open source repository on GitHub.

Minecraft Legend, EntelOcean, and Cyberlabs are some of the popular companies that use Windows Terminal, whereas Cmder is used by OPLOG, Codevelopment, and Blocktron. Windows Terminal has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3 company stacks & 54 developers stacks; compared to Cmder, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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What is Cmder?

It is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout.

What is Windows Terminal?

A new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community.

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What are some alternatives to Cmder and Windows Terminal?

iTerm2

A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

Putty

It is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.

Hyper Terminal

The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards. Focus will be primarily around speed and stability.

ConEmu

It aims to be handy, comprehensive, fast and reliable terminal window where you may host any console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash).

Alacritty

It is the fastest terminal emulator in existence. Using the GPU for rendering enables optimizations that simply aren't possible without it. It currently supports macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows.

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