One thing that seems ignored in some of the threads where people mention alternatives is that one of the historical advantages for putty (compared to cygwin, gi

One thing that seems ignored in some of the threads where people mention alternatives is that one of the historical advantages for putty (compared to cygwin, git's tools, etc.) has been that it is portable in that it does not require running an installer. This has been useful if you are on somebody else's machine and you don't want to have to remember to uninstall it afterwards and can also be useful if you are logged in as a user without many permissions. That said, I haven't used Windows for awhile so maybe those reasons don't exist any more (perhaps it isn't a problem to install a Windows 8/10 app on someone else's machine or within a restricted corporate environment) or maybe there are some good browser-based alternatives.