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PuTTY is just an awful piece of software in general: they take all the SSH options, rename them, and rearrange them into a bizarre menu structure with an obtuse
by blasdel 17y ago
PuTTY is just an awful piece of software in general: they take all the SSH options, rename them, and rearrange them into a bizarre menu structure with an obtuse session-saving system that reminds me of the horror of HyperTerm.
Install Cygwin, and use OpenSSH from your shell in MinTTY (which uses the PuTTY's terminal emulator implementation, but doesn't fuck up the UI and adds all the missing options).
- jodrellblank 17y agoYou can't seriously reply saying "PuTTY is awful, instead install Cygwin"? PuTTY is almost as good a program can get - no install, basic use case just works, good default colour scheme, proper full screen option available. Fast, simple, minimal fuss until you hit some stupid terminal quirks. Cygwin is almost as bad as a program can get - massive install, with confusing nonresizable large package choice dialog, masses of files everywhere, services, ugly stuck in a command prompt by default, hacks to bring everything unpleasant about nix onto Windows. Get many good things from command line nix from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net http://unxutils.sourceforge.net, put them in a folder in your PATH and leave the CygWin swamp a long way away. Maybe I'll try it again with MinTTY, it does look like a good terminal for CygWin. It's not an easy decision though, I predict it wont be at all fun.