Terminal Emulators for Windows 10

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I was wondering if anyone could recommend a decent terminal emulator for Windows 10? I could use the PowerShell command line or the old Command prompt, but when working with a lot of Linux and FreeBSD servers, those options leave something to be desired.

I've been trying out the free trial of ZOC Terminal, and while it is excellent, it does cost quite a bit of money. Is there a free version which is similar?
 
Windows 10 has bash now though it is a poor substitute for the real thing. There is also cygwin but I've not touched that in years - Windows is a bit lacking in that respect - if I'm doing any kind of remote admin then I use Putty as linked above.
 
Armageus said:
Putty?

https://www.putty.org
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I've never been a fan of PuTTY to be honest.

Rroff said:
Windows 10 has bash now though it is a poor substitute for the real thing. There is also cygwin but I've not touched that in years - Windows is a bit lacking in that respect - if I'm doing any kind of remote admin then I use Putty as linked above.
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I might just bite the bullet and pay for a license for ZOC Terminal. It is so much better than PuTTY and has far more in the way of features.
 
As mentioned above there is bash for Windows 10 now. But there is another approach, which may not seem obvious at first. You can run a 'headless' version of Linux which doesn't have a GUI. It just starts as a command prompt. An example of this is Ubuntu Server. It's also quite lightweight. You could run this in Virtual Box and also use VBox's facility to auto mount a shared folder between the guest Linux OS and the host Windows OS. That would allow you to drag files into the shared folder which would then be available to the guest OS, and vice versa. You wouldn't then just have a terminal emulator, you would have a full genuine bash session instead, along with a full Linux environment.
 
Hades said:
As mentioned above there is bash for Windows 10 now. But there is another approach, which may not seem obvious at first. You can run a 'headless' version of Linux which doesn't have a GUI. It just starts as a command prompt. An example of this is Ubuntu Server. It's also quite lightweight. You could run this in Virtual Box and also use VBox's facility to auto mount a shared folder between the guest Linux OS and the host Windows OS. That would allow you to drag files into the shared folder which would then be available to the guest OS, and vice versa. You wouldn't then just have a terminal emulator, you would have a full genuine bash session instead, along with a full Linux environment.
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I already run a bunch of Linux, FreeBSD and Windows 10 virtual machines on VMWare Workstation Pro 15 but I'd like a native Windows 10 app to handle SSH nicely. Also, I know about the Windows Subsystem for Linux, but I'd like to keep my host Windows 10 install "clean" and only install the most critical apps on it.
 
RoyalTS and mRemoteNG are two popular ones at work.

I'm a fan of RoyalTS and the way it allows you to organise connections, groups, credentials and the like.
 
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