The default colour scheme on Putty is not very good in my opinion. know I can change it manually but it would be nice if the default for new connections was better.
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Can't say anything definitive about “overblown”, but I like the change. Windows security model is inadequate, but it's good to work around it anyway.
How is Window's security model inadequate?
You can download/put different modules into the same folder and they will interact without any checks because of name clashes. Programs should be complete packages that depend only on known, protected system32-like locations.
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I'd love to try it, but I'm not in an environment where the build of windows I'm using is new enough yet.
Give MSYS2 a try: http://www.msys2.org/
Or cygwin that has easy to use gui package manager, iirc. Msys2 is a mess, but for non-development uses it should be ok, once you learn how to win in pacman.
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#134On Windows 10, with Windows Subsystem for Linux installed, I don't find myself using Putty anymore.
I use cygwin symlinked into the windows home directory, works great and unlike the microsoft ubuntu hack you can set permissions temporarily
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#135Since I switched to cygwin for ssh on windows I haven't looked back, putty is awful for someone coming from Linux normally and only forced to use Windows for certain things.
Yeah. I use a modified mintty-solarized-dark theme for cygwin, and symlinked my windows home dir into the cygwin one.
I never got around on writing a blag about how to do this, but I like it a lot
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#136Since I switched to cygwin for ssh on windows I haven't looked back, putty is awful for someone coming from Linux normally and only forced to use Windows for certain things.
Yeah. I use a modified mintty-solarized-dark theme for cygwin, and symlinked my windows home dir into the cygwin one. I never got around on writing a blag about how to do this, but I like it a lot
Exactly the same for me, mintty with solarized theme because I use solarized on all my other terminals in Fedora for example.
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#138Putty is great and has been for a very long time. Always glad to see it still in active development. Though, for Windows, once I found MobaXterm I never looked back. Of course on the Linux side nothing to me beats tmux or terminator.
And the SSH part of MobaXterm is based on PuTTY
I honestly didn't know that. Very cool!
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#140Pretty happy with the Kitty fork of putty, which is a lot less spartan with features. https://www.fosshub.com/KiTTY.html
And I would recommend MobaXterm, definitely also worth to try. http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
I just wanted to recommend ZOC (Which may some people still know from the good old Amiga times). It's available for Windows and MacOS. ZOC does have some really incredible features (integrated file transfer, multi-execution, team-directories). It's similar prices as MobaXterm, but doesn't have XWindows support.
If you don't need X-Window support, but rich terminal/ssh features, it may be a ($70) try.