GNOME Terminal is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to GNOME Terminal and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to GNOME Terminal are Windows Terminal, PowerShell, ConEmu and MobaXterm.
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
Tabby is the most popular Windows alternative to GNOME Terminal.
Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability...
A lot of features, a lot of options, but mouse selection with Shift cannot be configured the way it works in Linux terminals (i.e. selection without reporting mouse events to the application).
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.
Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.
Sadly, full-screen text applications are not working well. Midnight Commander flickers. Tig shows inconsistent colors (e.g. blue turning purple for some words).
MobaXterm is an enhanced terminal app that brings the advanced features of a Unix-like command-line to Windows. It takes the power of Cygwin and wraps it in a sleek, visual interface that's super easy to use, lightweight and portable.
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.
Alacritty has better performance and customization. However, the feature-set is limited in comparison to GNOME Terminal
Version 0.11.0 has a Windows installer. However, the config file is not installed, it needs to be copied from git. The default color scheme is poor. Generally, it's not ready for beginners yet, but it can be configured properly. It has no tabs, an important feature for me.
Tess is a terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more.
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
I tried all open-source programs in this list, and WezTerm is my choice. It has multiple tabs. It renders full-screen text interfaces correctly. It implements copy-and-paste in a Linux way and handles Shift properly. The only downside is that the configuration is a lua program, but it's well documented, and the configuration is a one-time effort.
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.
Beautiful and powerful. I like configuration with the a file. But sadly, text selection with Shift is not working the way it does in Linux terminals, and there is no option to change it.
Wave is an open-source, AI-native terminal built for seamless developer workflows with inline rendering, a modern UI, and persistent sessions.
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.
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Good alternative in general, but I cannot configure text selection with Shift and mouse. It extends the existing selection instead of just selecting the text.