if it did, that's on me, but with several other shells supported (one of them a cloud service, a shell on a remote system) it does not make sense that a disabled powershell also disables the whole terminal app.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Windows Terminal is a fairly new application. It came along around 2020 and launched with powershell 7 as its thing, in an attempt to drive people away from the old command prompt and to start using powershell. It probably always supported command prompt and other alternative terminal applications, but Microsoft has been trying to put powershell everywhere for a while. I think the Mac and Linux rollout was 2018?

Command prompt is still there but I imagine at some point it’ll just run command prompt commands in powershell instead if it isn’t already doing something like that already.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

I was using it all the time when I was daily driving windows, mostly for ssh, starting from when it was just beta with no settings menu but only the config file. I remember that like the standard powershell shell, powershell tabs of wt too had a blue background, but opening a default new tab always opened a black tab, a cmd based tab.