# Windows Terminal 48 Hacker News commenters recommended Windows Terminal and 24 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Recommended as a capable tabbed terminal for Windows and WSL that has improved, with good font rendering. Common caveat: early versions were slow, and advanced settings need hand-edited config. ## Why people recommend it - Tabs, panes and tiling (4 comments): "Even windows ships with a half-decent terminal with tabs and multiple panes by default now!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108885)) "the Windows Terminal solves most of those, and includes tabs and other useful features" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572543)) "Same with windows terminal, and you can use either of those to have tiling." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112459)) - Much better than before (5 comments): "is kinda good actually. It’s not Alacritty, but a lot better than any previous terminal emulator" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50192047)) "WT ranks a lot higher than a wide breadth of terminal emulators on linux now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803367)) "it was really a massive step up I did not expect after all of these years" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45892970)) - Works well with WSL (4 comments): "WSL and Windows Terminal has done a fantastic job at delaying my move to Linux as my primary desktop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567561)) "the only good thing that came out of Satya era has been the Windows Terminal and WSL" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195157)) "Development experience using Windows Terminal + WSL has been pretty great" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891541)) - Good font rendering (2 comments): "WinTerm has full VT and ANSI support, much better font rendering" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48005447)) "I particularly love its fonts (but that's probably just me)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646180)) ## What people warn about - Slow performance and latency (6 comments): "Casey Muratori told them that Windows Terminal sucked and they should be able to write one that goes at 60fps easy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486007)) "Years later there are still blog articles being written about the performance issues of the Windows Terminal." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45892021)) "the new Windows Terminal had horrendous performance when it first came out" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150824)) - Seen as basic and overhyped (4 comments): "Why is Windows Terminal so hyped up? It seems like an extremely basic terminal emulator to me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798669)) "followed by Casey producing evidence for his 'extremely simple' claim in couple of days." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956065)) "An LLM, a decent prompter, and a weekend could certainly out perform Windows Terminal." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246946)) - Input and crash bugs (3 comments): "Using Windows Terminal Version: 1.24.10921.0, characters are doubled on input." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926621)) "Windows Terminal users constantly had problems because WT is ... not great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931969)) "it somehow tends to crash the processes running inside its tabs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197343)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Ghostty](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ghostty.md): 401 recommend - [Termux](https://hackerapproved.com/p/termux.md): 188 recommend - [iTerm2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iterm2.md): 95 recommend - [Warp terminal](https://hackerapproved.com/p/warp-terminal.md): 84 recommend - [Kitty terminal emulator](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kitty.md): 79 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Windows Terminal", https://hackerapproved.com/p/windows-terminal/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).