Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.



Tabby vs Cmder Comments
clean ui , nice looking corss platform unlike cmder

- Tabby is Free and Open Source
Cmder is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Cmder and 19 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Cmder are PowerShell, Alacritty, Tess and Hyper.
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.



clean ui , nice looking corss platform unlike cmder

PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.

Alacritty is a blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It’s written in Rust and uses OpenGL for rendering to be the fastest terminal emulator available. Alacritty is available on GitHub in source form.


Tess is a terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more.




Hyper™ is a beautiful and extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards. It provides an elegant command-line experience that is consistent across all supported platforms which includes macOS, Windows and various Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian.




Limited out-of-box configurability,





A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust



Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). Guake is already package by a number of distribution (among them are Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or ArchLinux).


Termora is developed using Kotlin/JVM and partially implements the XTerm protocol (with ongoing improvements). Its ultimate vision is to achieve full platform support (including Android, iOS, and iPadOS) through Kotlin Multiplatform.

Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:




Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources.

terminalpp (terminal++) is a minimalist but powerful terminal emulator which provides the same features and user experience on both Windows and Linux.




Tabby is a fantastic responsive feature full terminal. Better UI and almost as customizable as cmder. It would probably be my go to terminal if it didn't eat so much of my RAM.