I should have been more clear. Your answer makes it sound like there is no
terminal in windows. There is. Actually you have many choices now. You can
use cmd.exe, powershell, or you can install a Linux shell like Ubuntu right in
windows. To ssh under windows by default you just need to type
Cmd.exe <enter>
Ssh pi@raspberrypi <enter>
Raspberry <enter>
That will log you in if your PI is on your wi-fi.
You can also do that in the power shell which is just as powerful as a linux
command line in many ways. Now I am a linux guy though but I have to use
windows for work so I am either on a Mac or a Windows machine running Linux
either under a virtual machine on Mac or just as a WSL2 system which doesn't
need a virtual environment under Windows. If you install wsl on windows you
can just run ubuntu like any other app and do the same two commands ssh and the
password to log in after you run the ubuntu bash shell.
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Okay, I'll try to clarify a few things:
The terminal, also known as the console and sometimes the shell refers to
running Linux without a GUI, just with the command-line and text output. If
you're old enough to remember the DOS days, this is essentially the Linux
equivalent of running DOS without the early versions of Windows that where just
GUIs that ran on top of DOS.
A terminal emulator or terminal window is a GUI application that lets you
access the command-line from a graphical environment. To add to the confusion,
these are sometimes just called a terminal or shell, perhaps prefixed with
graphical.
Due to similar terminology and inconsistent usage, it isn't always clear when
one is talking about using the command-line on a system without a GUI and when
they're using the command-line through a graphical application.
ssh, short for secure shell, is a protocol for accessing the command-line on a
remote system. On a Linux system, you can run the ssh command to log into
another Linux machine either from the console running without a GUI or from a
terminal emulator within a GUI environment. As Microsoft doesn't give users the
option of running without a GUI and ssh only allows command-line access to the
remote system, sshing from a Windows machine requires a terminal emulator.
Fortunately, there are a few Windows applications that combine an ssh client
and terminal emulator into a single application. PuTTY is probably the most
well-known of these, but I believe TerraTerm is another example, and I suspect
there's a way to ssh from Power Shell or cmd.exe(or what ever it's called
nowadays). I haven't made heavy use of Windows since the XP days, so I can't
offer much practical help there.
And while there are dozens of terminal emulators for Linux, those really only
become a concern if you decide to log into the Pi or another Linux machine
directly, and only if you're running a GUI, and even then, it's possible to
switch between the GUI and a text-only console under Linux.
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