better command for Windows? [closed]

Answer 1

PowerShell is amazing, however for anything other than the most basic commands there is a learning curve when switching from bash etc.

I went back to using cygwin.

Answer 2

PowerShell is worth looking into.

Answer 3

PowerCmd is great, with a ton of features including tabs, cut/copy/past, etc.

Console is also a great replacement and is a bit more stripped down than PowerCmd (which can sometimes be a little too feature rich.

Also, with both of these, if you have powershell installed, it is possible to run powershell from withing either.

Answer 4

I've never found anything I like more than Cygwin.

I also went ahead and installed Cygwin/X w/ Openbox so I can get something like this:

It's got multiple workspaces inside the main Openbox window so I can easily have up to 20 non-overlapping xterms that I can easily cycle through.