I will disagree, you can install most of these from the official repository of your distribution, without the use of electron. They are also very secure if you run them as an unprivileged user.
1.) Port it to Electron and keep nearly the same code base
2.) Rewrite the whole thing as a native app in such a language as C++ without the use of Electron
You can't possibly tell me that most developers won't choose #1 instead of #2 in a heartbeat (the switching costs are orders of magnitude more for #2, for one thing). Which is not a Good Thing.
And it's also very obvious that #2 isn't nearly as secure as #1, which runs in a sandbox and so does not have direct unchecked access to users' files like #2 does.
10/10 developing for the web on windows is finally tolerable
Cygwin has ssh as an optional install.
Msys2 too.
Of course, you need to have windows first. MS give away 30-day win 10 trial VM images with git bash installed, or at least they did.
Seriously? There are like 12389127381789 how to guides about how to do it, and it is literally like 3 steps.
Do you really think the person who has problems starting putty is going to thrive in a CLI environment?
The idea that software is secure if it only runs on your own user account is stupid IMO. I'd rather that software had access to everything on my computer EXCEPT my personal files.