Comment by yogo

Windows has indeed missed the text-mode boat big time. Eventually I think people naturally gravitate to running Linux with Windows in a virtual machine. I remember trying many of the tools mentioned in the article and it always never quite felt right. A lot of the niceness could be attributed to a combination of bash, readline, and the accompanying *nix tools--the experience just isn't the same in Windows. Having terminals open in front of you in something like terminator is simply a joy in Linux.