Windows Terminal now has AI chat:
At Build 2023, we announced that Windows Terminal users will be able to take advantage of natural language AI to recommend commands, explain errors and take actions within Windows Terminal. Since then, we have been listening to customer feedback and iterating on our AI chat experiments in...
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Currently, it exclusively supports Azure's OpenAI service, so you need to provide an endpoint & key, so you have to create & deploy an OpenAI Service resource (
consumption-based pricing). Note that they are also open-sourcing it:
This move aligns with the team's desire to let users and developers shape the future of AI in the Windows Terminal
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Download here:
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! - GitHub - microsoft/terminal: The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same...
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Canary is their nightly release & can be installed concurrent with the stable & preview Terminal releases, so you can mess around with it without affecting system functionality:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-windows-terminal-canary/
Terminal in general is pretty nice these days & is now the default launcher for all things command prompt & whatnot:
The day has finally come! Windows Terminal is now the default command line experience on Windows 11 22H2! 🎉 This means that all command line applications will now automatically open in Windows Terminal. This blog post will go into how this setting is enabled,
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Command Prompt, Powershell, etc. are all in Terminal instances as of Win11 22H2:
Bit of history;
Will Windows Terminal replace Command Prompt? Learn from Christopher Nguyen a Program Manager on the Windows Terminal team at Microsoft.
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Basic introduction guide to Terminal itself:
If you're new to the Windows Terminal, read this guide.
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Also, Copilot preview is also available for Windows 10 users:
Microsoft is bringing more AI features to Windows 10.
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I'm betting Microsoft is hoping that AI chat will overtake Google for searching, as it makes things more conversational & more tailored to what you're looking for. Regardless of that...pretty cool to have an open-source Terminal Chat with an all-inclusive Windows Terminal (CMD prompt, Powershell, etc.) that launches by default as of Win11 22H2! Same deal with WSL2:
WSL 2 provides the benefits of WSL 1, but uses an actual Linux kernel, rather than a translation layer like WSL 1, resulting in faster performance.
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Being able to do Linux with an integrated VM is pretty neat:
Learn about the Windows Subsystem for Linux, including the different versions and ways you can use them.
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The open-source nerds are slowing taking over Microsoft, haha! I'd love to see this ported into something like FreeDOS, haha! They already have the chatGPT-shell-cli shell script for Linux: (which includes GPT-4 support!)
Want to use ChatGPT on Linux without a web browser? I took a look at Bavarder, a GTK ChatGPT app for Linux recently (note: this app also supports a number
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Windows Terminal also supports bash via WSL FYI. So there are plenty of neat options to play with for us keyboard warriors!!