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I'm using PuTTY because I prefer native software. That said, it seems that Microsoft started shipping its own build of OpenSSH with Windows 10, so probably that's not needed anymore.

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The terminal emulation in Windows 10 isn't great. Mostly I use PuTTY instead.

Why is it not great? I just opened session from cmd.exe to a Linux host and checked few things. Colors work, vim works, tmux works, arrow keys work, delete and backspace works. From a quick test the only issue I've found is input with cyrillic layout, but that's definitely not something to be concerned about.

How about clipboard integration?

To copy text, selecting and pressing <Enter> or <Ctrl>+C works. To paste, one should right-click window title and select Edit -> Paste (Ctrl+V and Shift+Insert are sent as a hotkeys to the Linux). Or just right-click terminal window.

Another approach is to enable "Use Ctrl+Shift+C/V as Copy/Paste" in terminal properties and just use those shortcuts, they seem to work fine in ssh.

Not everyone has the luxury of running Linux host.

It's slow, the clipboard integration is flaky, the resize behaviour is weird. And difficulties with non-ascii input are a serious problem for some of us.

Not sure about speed, but clipboard integration works for me from the first glance (see my neighbor answer) and resize works, at least for vim and tmux. Non-ascii input requires more research, I think that with some additional configuration it should work.

Putty doesn’t implement 256 colors properly which is why there is so much eye bleating blue.

different key file format is pain.

I agree about the default terminal emulation, although Microsoft's new Terminal application has improved much of it.

But I find PuTTY's terminals to be almost worse. The visuals are seriously eye cancer inducing, and PuTTY's tools don't seem to be built with a terminal-based workflow in mind.

So, I much rather use either MS' OpenSSH port (on Win10) or MSYS 2's (which is included in the Git Bash for Windows, too).

Putty's absurdly small gui that isn't resizable was one of those minor things that always made my eye twitch. UX from a different age.

Why do you need to resize it?

Why do you need to change your wallpaper?

What does this have to do with my question lol

I think he's implying that customization is pretty much something you take for granted and there is no real reason it's not in putty.

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