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Mobatek's MobaXterm is a truly superior product: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ SSH, remote desktops, hugs & cupcakes for all m

Mobatek's MobaXterm is a truly superior product: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ SSH, remote desktops, hugs & cupcakes for all my friends!

swtrs 7y ago
MobaXterm's colored terminals have saved my bacon more than once. Great app.
- geocrasher 7y ago
  And, it imports PuTTY sessions seamlessly. A wonderful upgrade. Another consideration is that the free version is licensed for commercial use, which is why I freely recommend it at work and with a clear conscience.
AhtiK 7y ago
From: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ > Tabbed terminal with SSH > Based on PuTTY with antialiased fonts and macro support MobaXterm and PuTTY cover very different use-cases, PuTTY being a subset with close to 100% feature parity.
qzw 7y ago
It’s a great Swiss-army-knife of a terminal. One annoying thing that I’ve lived with for years is that it won’t start on my second monitor. I always have to move its window after starting it. I tried to file a bug years ago, but couldn’t find a way to do it on their website. Maybe it’s time to look again.
xorcist 7y ago
MobaXterm is not free/open source software. This may or may not be relevant to you of course.
- smitty1e 7y ago
  What do you mean? They offer a paid version with some minor bennies. The product is of sufficient value that it's worth supporting.
yread 7y ago
I used to like it a lot but I've found it consistently uses about 4% CPU no matter if I have any sessions open
- geocrasher 7y ago
  Do you have the Xserver turned on by default? If so, turn it off.
nailer 7y ago
You're comparing an SSH implementation with a terminal (that seems to also include an SSH implementation). For Terminals, Windows has a number of outstanding terminal apps: - Windows Terminal (a tabbed terminal made by Microsoft) - Fluent - Hyper 3 - Terminus - ConEmu And a billion other maintained tabbed terminals, some with an SSH UI if you want it. As an SSH implementation though, openssh is probably the best.
- hrez 7y ago
  That's right, putty is usable terminal first. I can get ssh in various ways on windows. Decent linux terminal is hard to find though. Nothing comes close to putty and clones. The worst part in various contenders is output speed. Many of them are ridiculously slow. I don't care how pretty that Electron-based terminal is if it's dog slow.
  - nailer 7y ago
    I don't know what "Decent linux terminal is hard to find though" means. Linux has great terminals. Gnome Terminal and KTerm. If by 'Linux terminal' you just mean terminal, Windows Terminal and Fluent aren't Electron based and are both quite fast.
    - hrez 7y ago
      I meant a terminal on windows to ssh to linux. Simple test - cat 50k lines of some logs. See how long it takes on various terminals. Under remote screen/tmux see if you can switch windows while it keeps flooding the screen. There is no reason for terminal to be slower than ssh. I tried windows terminal and it's slow. Of course there are also fonts, copy/paste, colors, keys customization etc. But slowness is a deal breaker for me.
      - nailer 7y ago
        Ah I normally think of performance as in interactive latency. You probably want alacritty then, it's GPU accelerated and designed to be ultra fast. No tabs, it's expected you add a Windows based tabbing window manager.

Mobatek's MobaXterm is a truly superior product: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ SSH, remote desktops, hugs & cupcakes for all my friends!

swtrs 7y ago

MobaXterm's colored terminals have saved my bacon more than once. Great app.

geocrasher 7y ago
And, it imports PuTTY sessions seamlessly. A wonderful upgrade. Another consideration is that the free version is licensed for commercial use, which is why I freely recommend it at work and with a clear conscience.

AhtiK 7y ago

From: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ > Tabbed terminal with SSH > Based on PuTTY with antialiased fonts and macro support MobaXterm and PuTTY cover very different use-cases, PuTTY being a subset with close to 100% feature parity.

qzw 7y ago

It’s a great Swiss-army-knife of a terminal. One annoying thing that I’ve lived with for years is that it won’t start on my second monitor. I always have to move its window after starting it. I tried to file a bug years ago, but couldn’t find a way to do it on their website. Maybe it’s time to look again.

xorcist 7y ago

MobaXterm is not free/open source software. This may or may not be relevant to you of course.

smitty1e 7y ago
What do you mean? They offer a paid version with some minor bennies. The product is of sufficient value that it's worth supporting.

yread 7y ago

I used to like it a lot but I've found it consistently uses about 4% CPU no matter if I have any sessions open

geocrasher 7y ago
Do you have the Xserver turned on by default? If so, turn it off.

nailer 7y ago

You're comparing an SSH implementation with a terminal (that seems to also include an SSH implementation). For Terminals, Windows has a number of outstanding terminal apps: - Windows Terminal (a tabbed terminal made by Microsoft) - Fluent - Hyper 3 - Terminus - ConEmu And a billion other maintained tabbed terminals, some with an SSH UI if you want it. As an SSH implementation though, openssh is probably the best.

hrez 7y ago
That's right, putty is usable terminal first. I can get ssh in various ways on windows. Decent linux terminal is hard to find though. Nothing comes close to putty and clones. The worst part in various contenders is output speed. Many of them are ridiculously slow. I don't care how pretty that Electron-based terminal is if it's dog slow.
- nailer 7y ago
  I don't know what "Decent linux terminal is hard to find though" means. Linux has great terminals. Gnome Terminal and KTerm. If by 'Linux terminal' you just mean terminal, Windows Terminal and Fluent aren't Electron based and are both quite fast.
  - hrez 7y ago
    I meant a terminal on windows to ssh to linux. Simple test - cat 50k lines of some logs. See how long it takes on various terminals. Under remote screen/tmux see if you can switch windows while it keeps flooding the screen. There is no reason for terminal to be slower than ssh. I tried windows terminal and it's slow. Of course there are also fonts, copy/paste, colors, keys customization etc. But slowness is a deal breaker for me.
    - nailer 7y ago
      Ah I normally think of performance as in interactive latency. You probably want alacritty then, it's GPU accelerated and designed to be ultra fast. No tabs, it's expected you add a Windows based tabbing window manager.