What shell / terminal to use?

[Casper van Donderen]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:54:12 +0100, John Layt <johnlayt at googlemail.com>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What's the best shell or terminal to be using under Windows?  I've seen a
> couple of different bash ports out there, and there's always cygwin but  
> that's
> rather heavy.  All I know is using cmd.exe or even PowerShell will send  
> me
> insane very quickly :-)

Could you elaborate on that?

I run cmd.exe and I have put the stuff from the KDE Windows emerge  
buildsystem in my PATH. So now I can properly use things like rm and ls in  
my cmd window.

Casper