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A complete walkthrough setting up Windows Terminal specifically for a smooth WSL experience — default profile, font, and the settings that most commonly need adjusting.
Your shell prompt, ls output, or a TUI app shows the wrong colors, garbled characters, or no colors at all specifically inside Windows Terminal connected to WSL — even though the exact same shell config looks fine over plain SSH.
Announced at Build 2019 and pushed to GitHub on May 3, 2019, Windows Terminal brought tabs and modern rendering to the Windows command line — while making both it and the underlying console host genuinely open source.
A complete walkthrough customizing Windows Terminal's settings.json and your PowerShell profile script — so your preferred shell, prompt, and startup behavior are there every time you open a terminal.