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>> PuTTY is a fine terminal emulator

I hear this a lot, and it's quite sad. PuTTY is not a great terminal application. It just happens to be the only usable SSH client on Windows, and so everyone uses it because they have little choice in the matter. Connection management and copy/paste is such a pain. Microsoft's release of PowerShell as an attempt to improve upon cmd.exe was an enormous failure.

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I highly recommend you try out cmder. It's a bundle of the excellent conemu console emulator, clink for bash style completion in cmd.exe, and some unix tools.

http://cmder.net/

Where do you get the idea that it is the only SSH client for Windows? Not only are there commercial ones, there is also Cygwin which basically gives you a full linux-like environment with bash, package installer, and ssh, both client and server. I have used Cygwin on all Windows versions since Windows 98.

If you prefer Windows 10 on your laptop, I can wholeheartedly recommend Ubuntu on Windows over PuTTY. Bring your good old ~/.ssh on over, and you're all set to continue where you left off.

> Microsoft's release of PowerShell as an attempt to improve upon cmd.exe was an enormous failure.

It's fine to be opposed to the object pipeline in powershell. Enormous failure? Not so much.

You can try enhanced version of putty too

Multi-Tabbed PuTTY (MTPutty)

http://ttyplus.com/

Xshell is plenty usable on windows and free for home use

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