Is there a shell+terminal+font combo that folks really like for WSL? I've tried the new terminal beta with zsh and--for reasons I can't quite articulate right now--it feels "off" and I invariably proceed to boot up virtualbox for my debian, i3, kitty, fira code setup to get work done. Maybe it's the break in filesystems and $HOME?
Edit: learning that WSL2 does away with the syscall-translating tech and mandates Hyper-V, the question of whether to look into this further becomes thornier!
It looks exactly the same as xterm on my native Linux laptop.
I've even gone as far as running i3 through WSL1 / wsltty and it worked very well with 1 monitor. I stopped using it because I have 2 monitors, but if I had 1 monitor it would have been usable for day to day development.
Windows Terminal uses grayscale instead of subpixel antialiasing by default. They recently added the ability to turn on subpixel antialiasing. (I'm not sure if that's what you mean by "off".)
Zsh have a long list of nice features that Bash lacks. Two of my favourites:
1. Imagine you are in a directory with file1.ext and file2.ext. You type f[TAB], it autocompletes it to file. So far, Bash and Zsh are the same. If you continue pressing [TAB], bash prints a list of files so you can complete typing the name yourself. Zsh starts cycling through filenames.
2. In Zsh, you can type for example /u/lo/b[TAB] and it automatically expands the path to /usr/local/bin. If multiple paths match the original expression, it shows a list and pressing tab cycles through the options.
Zsh is quite feature-rich, and for the most part a drop-in replacement for Bash. See this slide deck for more Zsh awesomeness:
Edit: learning that WSL2 does away with the syscall-translating tech and mandates Hyper-V, the question of whether to look into this further becomes thornier!