There are some interesting combinations of Settings. You can have Terminal startup with your Windows login and always running in the background, which is essent

There are some interesting combinations of Settings. You can have Terminal startup with your Windows login and always running in the background, which is essentially why the old consoles were so "snappy", the classic ConHost was always running, even when there are no console windows to display. If you leave it always running you can also try Win+` for "Quake mode".