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I'd love to see a replacement for PuTTY. The '90 shareware vibe for handling the saved sites or for setting the password/key options ruins my mood every time I have to use it (often enough). Ironically, all the few others I saw try their best to copy its look and feel...

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Royal TSX on MacOs

https://royalapps.com/ts/mac/features

Or MremoteNG (which is a wrapper around putty among other remote tools) on Windows

https://mremoteng.org/

I think mRemoteNG is my winner: multiple settings, GUI, covers even RDP... thank you!

On the latest windows , powershell comes with ssh built in. I dont use putty anymore, just open up powershell and ssh in

Even better-- get WSL, and you can get a full fledged linux system.

Main things I miss when I try switching away from putty are `alt-shift` for block selection and bracketed paste in to vim https://github.com/ConradIrwin/vim-bracketed-paste

openssh is great and id prefer to stay with it in a pure fashion.

but where im at now just has thousands upon thousands of systems.

most with super long domain names.

only about 40 machines are my direct customers that have my ssh key on. the rest rely on a password i have to obtain/provison, or ssh over ldap and the key rotates frequently.

i cant manage it in a timely fashion without a gui app that has a section to remember connections in a nested/tree fashion

Fine if all you need is one connection, but PuTTY has "bookmarks and settings management" on top of that.

You realize you can save all your connections, keys, settings (per connection) in ~/.ssh/config

Right?

https://linuxize.com/post/using-the-ssh-config-file/

Isn’t that what your SSH config will give you if setup correctly? Apart from the UI of course

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