What is the purpose of a terminal emulator like PuTTY when Windows cmd can do SSH by default?
>>109036146putty is a big frontend for ssh because windozers need a GUI for everything
>>109036146Windows didn’t ship an SSH client 20 years ago
moar features
>>109036146putty has configs that I can load. how would I do that in CMD?
>>109036208Thread
>>109036214maybe command line arguments? environment variables? shell scripts, err, batch files?
>>109036235i'm not a tinker tranny. I won't waste time with that when someone has already created the perfect piece of software for that purpose and it's free.
>>109036146cmd can't load puttyAgent keys.
PuTTY is older than you.
>>109036146PuTTYze nuts in your mouth
>>109036214That's a native feature of ssh. You can use a nice TUI front end for it, I use SSHM.
>>109036146cmd.exe not being utter shit is a very recent phenomenon. Bizarrely it's pretty much the only component they've actually substantially improved over time.
>>109036465they realized that developers actually use CLIs far more often than ms would like to admit and people moving over to macos or linux because of that is just a punch in the nuts that they had to put an end to.
>>109036465wordpad having tabs and temp files between sessions is pretty sweet, too.just have to turn off the copilot shit and markdown.
Putty also works as serial console.
>>109036214Use CMD via Windows Terminal
>>109036632this, useful for embedded gizmos over uart
Putty is so comfy it’s just so comfy
>>109036146what is the purpose of windows?
>>109036208Nope, windows had a command line from before it existed, and openssh was ported to run on windows long ago.For 20 years windows user thought pic related was superior to command line. Putty is quintessentially just that
>>109036208Okay but it's not 2006. Why would anyone use putty in $current_year?
>>109036214~\.ssh\config
I use it on Linux even after I switched away from Windows. I have too many servers and settings to manage. I often need to use them as tunnels. I prefer CLI tools for most things but trying to use SSH the way I do with it would be a pain in the dick. I like being able to change my settings after I'm connected without killing my session.
>>109036146I don't know about now, but it was useful like 11 years ago to easily maintain a little RPI server at work.
>>109036146Windows admins that have to log into a Linux computer once in a while and have been using Putty since 1999.
>>109036214ssh has config files, you knew that, right?>>109036241>perfectPutty is anything but perfect. In fact it's a pretty clunky and awkward software.
>>109036146literally all it does over ssh.exe is serial port shit.
>>109040264It does a bunch of other obscure stuff too. No idea why anyone would want a genuine telnet service in this day and age, but putty can be a client for it.
>>109040285ok, ya telnet too.only ever used it for ancient REAL System V Unices
>>109040319Actually, Windows literally has had telnet by default since like Windows 98. I don't know if it still has it. I think you have to activate it in the enabled windows features.
>>109036146As I remember, back in the day Windows didn't come with SSH by default. It's also nicer to use from a GUI to this day, you can save connection profiles with all their associated settings and then just click them from a list.
>>109040285I have occasionally needed putty to connect to devices I can access over Telnet. Like Huawei LTE routers that have it enabled after you flash modified firmware. I'd need to send AT commands and shit to them.
>>109036146GUI
>>109039328>some people thought this so all of them must have thought thatHope that's goading.
