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I've stopped using PuTTY and now use MinTTY with the Ubuntu subsystem and the regular old Ubuntu SSH client. Specifically this thing: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

It's real nice and even supports 24bit colour if you're into that.

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Another option: SSH inside WSL in windows 10.

The default terminal was a bit limited for me, but I hear they're making big improvements to it in later builds.

I tried that briefly too, and I couldn't launch screen. It seems to trigger some old bug in screen. How far is the WSL terminal from the usual fanfare (screen, tmux, proper colors in the terminal and text editors, and other edge cases for scrollback etc.) ?

Can tmux start within the WSL?

Yes. ;-)

that's amazing, I will definitely try it

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