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PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Give KDE (maybe on Kubuntu) a try. It's pretty easy to make it look and behave a lot like Windows, and alt-right-drag to resize and alt-left-drag to move windows have saved me like a couple thousand hours in fiddly work.

I'd recommend Linux Mint with Cinnamon for the same reasons.

GNOME 2 is much better.

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).

Tabbed shells, combine with ssh or putty.exe, etc. : http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MakingABetterSomewhatPrettierB...

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).

The Chrome SSH client is close to becoming very useful for me. I stopped using it because IIRC you can only store a handful of connection credentials at a time.

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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yeah, because managing windows is not the problem a window manager would be responsible for... what then? you have a dozen word documents? and a dozen text files? and a dozen images? ... do you keep changing your tools everytime you pass a window number threshold? just get rid of windows 8. as troll as this comment may sound...

Get rid of it for what? This is purely a troll; you offered no solution. I can't even imagine what you're referring to; is OSX or Ubuntu going to make managing my windows any better? Note: I'm well aware of workspaces, but that can't be what you're referring to, as they are available to Win users, and it's not clear the OP is looking for anything more than tabs, which a WM isn't generally providing.

Linux is bigger than Ubuntu. There are Linux WMs that are FAR beyond what's available in Windows or OSX.

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?

Because Linux is good only when used from the command line, and Mac OS doesn't run on commodity hardware. That leaves only Windows as a viable option for most people.

Well, OSX does run on commodity hardware (often with little to no modification). It just isn't sold on non-Apple hardware and the EULA "forbids" it

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).

If you have a ton of shell connections open at once, consider trying a "base station" linux machine from which you jump out to other machines, + tmux. This way you ssh to machine1, run tmux, then you can create as many sessions as you want in whatever combination of windows/tabs you like. Bonus: you can disconnect from machine1, and when you reconnect everything is still in place. Worth a try for sure!

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).

I am probably a putty diehard... i love the simplicity of it. I get around this by using screen in just one putty window.

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?

I know this is a troll statement, but I feel Windows does a lot of things well. * For large organizations, domain controls make managing a large number of desktops much easier. * I feel MS Office on windows is a better product than the mac version (if you do a lot of document work). * Gaming. Windows is still dominant for desktop games. * Windows isn't the walled garden that Mac is going towards. * Backwards compatib…

> For large organizations, domain controls make managing a large number of desktops much easier.

The Unix way of putting the resources on the network, and synchronizing /etc works quite well. I've never seen anybody actually claim that AD is better than it. Most people complaining that the unixes don't have administration tools just want them to work like Windows.

Windows is a hell to administer, you can't just clone machines and you can't centralize your resources. You must do what AD allows you, and beg that this time something won't break, because you can't really test anything.

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Those are actually more than two clicks and sadly enough to frustrate me every time. There must be a fork with sane defaults out there somewhere.

You could probably export a Registry file that has all your settings and then import on a new machine.

if you are a putty user, do this. its very time consuming to set up putty especially colors but its easy to keep all your settings in a reg file.
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