@darius Until the WSL came along that was the only game in town, and even the terminal MS included with its first iteration of the WSL was pretty awful, so I googled "wsl terminal that works as well as PuTTY" and found: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/releases
@mhoye apparently WSL2 is... really really shockingly good. I may give it a shot. (I tried the beta of WSL1 and it was too janky for my needs.)