Using Windows Terminal
When you run Windows Terminal, it will launch your default profile. Profiles are a way of specifying what shell should be run in an instance of the terminal, for example, PowerShell or Bash. Click on the + in the title bar to create a new tab with another instance of your default profile, or you can click the down arrow to choose which profile you want to run, as shown in the following figure:
Figure 3.5 – A screenshot showing the profile dropdown for creating a new tab
The previous figure shows a range of options for launching a new terminal tab, and each of these options is referred to as a profile. The profiles shown were automatically generated by Windows Terminal – it detected what was installed on my machine and created the list of dynamic profiles. Better still, if I install a new WSL distro after Windows Terminal is installed, it will be automatically added to your list of available profiles! We'll take a quick...
