Windows 11 provides a rich GUI, but it also supports various command line interfaces (CLIs) through a modern Terminal app.

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...

For decades, Coreutils have been part of the standard repertoire for Linux administrators and developers. Those who wanted to use these tools on Windows with largely identical behavior previously ...

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The ...

I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid ...

Bash is the default shell in Ubuntu, and honestly? There’s nothing wrong with it. But if you spend a lot of time in the terminal, it can be worth trying out alternative shells as they often provide ...

A feature-rich Unix shell written in C++ with syntax highlighting, autosuggestions, smart completions, and a Catppuccin color palette. Built as a deep exploration of systems programming — from ...

Getting an initial shell — through exploitation, a reverse connection, or a web interface — often feels like a win. In practice, many of these shells are fragile: no tab completion, broken control ...