Terminal is an “app” that merges Command Prompt and PowerShell. And is the way Microsoft intends they be used, appearing on the Win+X power user menu, or even just from the Start Menu in the first place.
why, did it change from the traditional command prompt?
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.
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.
Microsoft has admitted to breaking this. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-apps-like-notepad-arent-loading-what-is-error-code-0x803f8001-and-how-d
Nah, this is definitely Windows being Windows: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-apps-like-notepad-arent-loading-what-is-error-code-0x803f8001-and-how-d
They even managed to break Notepad!
Both parts of this post are incorrect.
Terminal is an “app” that merges Command Prompt and PowerShell. And is the way Microsoft intends they be used, appearing on the Win+X power user menu, or even just from the Start Menu in the first place.
This is a Microsoft problem. They’ve admitted it. Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20260122062054/https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/19764
not really. windows terminal can run several kinds of shells, and last I used it powershell wasn’t even the default one
Yeah, What was the default one?
why, did it change from the traditional command prompt?
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.
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.