I stopped using PuTTY (I was using the KiTTY fork) and have been exclusively using WSL(https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about https://msdn.microsoft.c

I stopped using PuTTY (I was using the KiTTY fork) and have been exclusively using WSL(https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about) for the past 6 months. Love it so far! My only complaint is that you have to run ssh as root to map ports < 1024 (a *nix security limitation) while in PuTTY you could just run as an average user.