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Flashback! Is PuTTY still standard issue for folks on Windows?

by aculver 15y ago

wladimir 15y ago
Yes. It's still by far the most popular SSH client for Windows.
buro9 15y ago
The few times I touch Windows, it's pretty much the most used program alongside Chrome and Sublime Text 2.
wildmXranat 15y ago
I have it installed on every windows box I have, and that includes recent windows 7 desktop.
Scaevolus 15y ago
I prefer PuTTYtray, it includes URL hyperlinking, tray minimization, and a few other nice features.
- alimbada 15y ago
  I prefer it too. Shame it isn't updated anymore and the author has no plans to resume updating it.
jpitz 15y ago
PuTTY and Cygwin are still the most popular ways to get an SSH client on Windows, so far as I'm aware.
- kahawe 15y ago
  I prefer PuTTy a hell of a lot more for the wonderful copy+paste right-clicks. Luckily there is puttycyg!!
  - Goladus 15y ago
    Huh, I'd never heard of puttycyg. I always just ran a cygwin sshd on a local port and used putty to connect to that.
dorian-graph 15y ago
More or less—there are some alternatives or ones that build upon PuTTY (Like, adding tabs) though.
iaskwhy 15y ago
Not on topic: this is one of the issues with not showing any indication of the votes. When you ask something and get lots of answers you have no way to know which are being upvoted or not. I did upvote one and I'm sure more people did, I was actually very curious with the result of this mini-poll. That also explains why there are several answers with the same trend, redundancy is the only to show a trend when a question is posted on the comments.
takameyer 15y ago
It's my primary work tool for embedded c/c++. That and vim.
roadnottaken 15y ago
Yes. Honestly it's ability to "intelligently" know what I'm trying to select (for copy/paste or whatever) with the mouse is better than any other terminal I've used (OS X, Ubuntu, etc).
eropple 15y ago
For the most part. I've personally switched to PenguiNet (a combined SSH/SCP client), but it's commercial software.

Flashback! Is PuTTY still standard issue for folks on Windows?

by aculver 15y ago

Flashback! Is PuTTY still standard issue for folks on Windows?

wladimir 15y ago

Yes. It's still by far the most popular SSH client for Windows.

buro9 15y ago

The few times I touch Windows, it's pretty much the most used program alongside Chrome and Sublime Text 2.

wildmXranat 15y ago

I have it installed on every windows box I have, and that includes recent windows 7 desktop.

Scaevolus 15y ago

I prefer PuTTYtray, it includes URL hyperlinking, tray minimization, and a few other nice features.

alimbada 15y ago
I prefer it too. Shame it isn't updated anymore and the author has no plans to resume updating it.

jpitz 15y ago

PuTTY and Cygwin are still the most popular ways to get an SSH client on Windows, so far as I'm aware.

kahawe 15y ago
I prefer PuTTy a hell of a lot more for the wonderful copy+paste right-clicks. Luckily there is puttycyg!!
- Goladus 15y ago
  Huh, I'd never heard of puttycyg. I always just ran a cygwin sshd on a local port and used putty to connect to that.

dorian-graph 15y ago

More or less—there are some alternatives or ones that build upon PuTTY (Like, adding tabs) though.

iaskwhy 15y ago

Not on topic: this is one of the issues with not showing any indication of the votes. When you ask something and get lots of answers you have no way to know which are being upvoted or not. I did upvote one and I'm sure more people did, I was actually very curious with the result of this mini-poll. That also explains why there are several answers with the same trend, redundancy is the only to show a trend when a question is posted on the comments.

takameyer 15y ago

It's my primary work tool for embedded c/c++. That and vim.

roadnottaken 15y ago

Yes. Honestly it's ability to "intelligently" know what I'm trying to select (for copy/paste or whatever) with the mouse is better than any other terminal I've used (OS X, Ubuntu, etc).

eropple 15y ago

For the most part. I've personally switched to PenguiNet (a combined SSH/SCP client), but it's commercial software.