Open the Windows Terminal (if you haven't it open already) and run the following command: sudo apt update & sudo apt install zsh -y The next thing we need to do is installing the zsh shell in our WSL. Now every time we run the terminal, the default profile will be the WSL one. Paste the WSL guid inside the defaultProfile setting.Scroll down to find the guid for the WSL.We can change the default profile by opening the terminal menu (press the down arrow) and select settings. Since I am going to be using WSL all the time, I want this to be the default. When you run the Windows Terminal, you can see that the Terminal opens the Windows PowerShell by default. You can also download the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store. You can read more about the features of the Windows Terminal on the official documentation website. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colours, backgrounds, and shortcut key bindings. Windows Terminal is a modern terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It also comes with integrated support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Powershell, Azure cloud shell and the Command Prompt.

The terminal itself it's pretty good and allows you to have different tabs on it. It's not using my favourite shell zsh shell.Pretty simple theme (a grey text on a black background).The Windows Terminal is great, but has a few problems: On that post, I've mentioned how I've been using the Windows Terminal as my main terminal. I've wrote a quick post about Moving to Windows from a Mac. Home Books Digital Garden Store Contact Setting up Windows Terminal

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