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Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by closewith »

andrewflnr wrote: post #47
throaway920181 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool, but hachyderm.io also is not a trusted/recognizable domain for me. Trust issues all the way down!

It's definitionally the correct domain for Simon Tatham's social media. What are you expecting here?

How would the average person know that?

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by mystifyingpoi »

Helmut10001 wrote: post #59
MortyWaves wrote: post #15

Ever since Windows gained Terminal and OpenSSH, my usage of Putty has almost entirely ceased except for serial for embedded systems work. Then I realised Putty ships with a CLI version which I now use in Terminal for accessing serial.

I don't trust Windows with my SSH keys. Since about 2 years, I am actively preparing my final migration to Linux. There's some Windows software left that I need to replace before this move is possible, but I am close.

Is such paranoia warranted? Millions of corporate laptops run Windows 11 just fine. I know M$ is evil and spying on you, but not to such degree.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 »

MortyWaves wrote: post #25
ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 wrote: post #23

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I always used mingw and similar projects. IMO, putty was always annoying (but very useful) software. The "ecosystem" seems better now though.

Indeed, that and “git bash” were always the weird outliers. I’m glad there’s now native options.

mingw predates git on windows (and in general), but yeah, indeed.

interesting to scan the log on that: https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/main/Rel...

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by nine_k »

Helmut10001 wrote: post #59
MortyWaves wrote: post #15

Ever since Windows gained Terminal and OpenSSH, my usage of Putty has almost entirely ceased except for serial for embedded systems work. Then I realised Putty ships with a CLI version which I now use in Terminal for accessing serial.

I don't trust Windows with my SSH keys. Since about 2 years, I am actively preparing my final migration to Linux. There's some Windows software left that I need to replace before this move is possible, but I am close.

Why replace it? Wine works fine.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

#67

Post by crinkly »

Lammy wrote: post #30
oguz-ismail wrote: post #16

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> Terminal Have they fixed font rendering yet? cmd.exe looks better on my laptop

Have they fixed it spying on you? https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/terminal/issues/139

Windows is basically spyware at this point. The only way to win is to not play.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by flowerthoughts »

Is it just me that feels www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ has some kind of sentimental value? I built a locked-down version fof PuTTY for their termainl-based (book) library system in 1998. It's been with me a long time.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by gregoryl »

Helmut10001 wrote: post #59
MortyWaves wrote: post #15

Ever since Windows gained Terminal and OpenSSH, my usage of Putty has almost entirely ceased except for serial for embedded systems work. Then I realised Putty ships with a CLI version which I now use in Terminal for accessing serial.

I don't trust Windows with my SSH keys. Since about 2 years, I am actively preparing my final migration to Linux. There's some Windows software left that I need to replace before this move is possible, but I am close.

Just pull the trigger. A surprisingly large amount of software just works on wine.

I'm a c# dev with near 20 years experience, and I finally got the shits with advertising in the start menu. Arch Linux, because I figured why not do it properly?

I game a fair bit, and find most things on steam just work.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by viraptor »

closewith wrote: post #62
andrewflnr wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's definitionally the correct domain for Simon Tatham's social media. What are you expecting here?

How would the average person know that?

Average person aware of trust on social network / internet - because https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham has a validated link to the author's homepage.

Others - they don't understand the trust anyway, so there prerequisite steps missing before the main question anyway.

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