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The PowerShell terminal is also incredibly aesthetically grating. They decided to take the old aliased bitmap font and fixed width window from cmd.exe and layer

• jdmichal 9y ago
  You can change the screen buffer size, font, and colors of Windows terminals. Right-click on the title bar, select "Properties...".
  • tdeck 9y ago
    True, but terrible defaults are terrible defaults. And when I find myself using someone else's machine, rather than the comforting glow of a familiar terminal I'm thrust back into the harsh reality of Microsoft's poor design decisions :/.
    • jdmichal 9y ago
      Eh, in this case one person's "poor design decisions" is another's "my inbox becomes hate incarnate if this 10+ year old thing is ever changed". https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ The best approach I've seen isn't to change defaults, but rather to make porting customization painless. And that's definitely something that can almost always be improved. I've actually been recently impressed by Samsung in this regard with their "Smart Switch" phone app. Super simple to transfer a lot of the stuff you care about from one phone to another, including sourcing from iOS and even Windows Mobile!
  • nsxwolf 9y ago
    It sucks out of the box though, which is true of so many things in the Dev experience on Windows. It takes so long to tweak every little thing and download every missing utility.
• zvrba 9y ago
  > font and fixed width window from cmd.exe Both use console host. Before it was horrible, but they've improved it recently: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt427362(v=ws.11).aspx https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt427362(v=ws.11...