I have night mode enabled always.
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Does it not suck? I so badly want it to not suck. A modern terminal UX on Windows is gonna change my life.
I’ve been using it for about half a year now. It’s a significant improvement. I use it with Powershell 6 which for whatever reason is yet to be a standard part of windows.
I did find one thing that sucks. Since it’s a windows store app I am yet to figure out a way to create a shortcut to it that launches it as administrator every time… meh.
PS7 is out.
You can get Terminal from here: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal so you wont have to suffer through the store.
So here’s the problem with launching a Windows Store app elevated. The app install is tied to your user profile. Since my regular user and my admin user are separate things, the app has to be installed for both. And then as my regular user, the app gets updated. I can no longer elevate until log in as my admin self, let the update run, then go back to being a normal user.
Gonna have to give managing via winget or chocolatey a try. I don’t think the security folks will throw a fit :)
On the other hand, it IS quite nice.
Ohmigod they skipped right to PS7? How does the new God of War look? Did you spring for that new haptic feedback genital sleeve?
Windows Terminal is great. I’ve been using it for a couple months myself and really enjoy it.
So this Terminal is a replacement for the command prompt?
You can use it to spawn tabbed instances of console, powershell, and Linux command line (WSL). And you can color theme it and stuff. It’s smooth and what console should have been for years now.
All the works.
And now finally “sc” works again.
“Old” powershell w.e. edition:
New fancy powershell:
Good times.
I also forgot they did this kind of ridiculous video:
Meanwhile, they are busy doing ‘brand management’.
The twitter marketing is stupid, but really, who cares?
I’ve been noticing something weird since my last update to 2004; the Microsoft store now asks for my PIN to verify I’m me. Thing is, I never made a PIN for my Microsoft account. It lets me log in with my password using “other methods” but it seems awfully weird as it never asked me to do this before. Already ran a couple AV scans and I’m fine there.
I checked Credential Manager, and I … have no Windows credentials? Is that right?
Credential manager is more for managing 3rd party credentials than your actual windows login. You’re probably more interested in ‘Sign-in options’ if you search for it.
Much appreciated. I wound up using WSreset.exe which seems to have solved it. Still scratching my head a bit, but all is momentarily well in Windows World again.
I think PIN is the expected/recommended default for logging in to Windows these days so I’d probably just chalk it up to Microsoft mucking up the UI and presenting it even though you hadn’t set one up.
I think it depends on when you set up an account. I’m pretty sure PIN was not asked for in the very first few versions of 10.
It’s also basically the same as a password, so I’m not exactly sure why they have both now.
