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What is Windows Terminal?

A modern, fast, GPU-accelerated terminal for Windows.

Features & use cases

Multiple profiles supporting a variety of command line applications
Customized schemes and configurations
Unicode and UTF-8 character support
GPU accelerated text rendering
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